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“Why have you been so sad?” That’s the query that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old student, requires almost everyone he meets included in an excessive task, “The Stock of National Unhappiness.” The solutions he receives—a mixture of genuine unhappiness and ridiculous complaint—create a collection of woe. Zeke, meanwhile, stays wonderfully ignorant to his daily routine that is threatened by the increasingly harsh realities, choosing instead to concentrate his energy that he is able to acquire custody of his orphaned nieces so on locating the ideal partner. Subsequent actions defined in a women’s journal, the ever-positive Zeke recognizes some “prospects”: a recently separated friend, a coffeehouse barista, his administrative assistant, and Sofia Coppola (“Why not aim higher?”). A clairvoyant when it involves the Starbucks purchases of visitors, a quixotic rebel when it involves the national bureaucracy, and a passionate believer in the morning drink and the night binge, Zeke comes with an irreverent speech that's a wonder of lacerating humor and heart-on-sleeve emotion, underscored by a creeping fear and made more immediate by the wish that if he can just only look for a spouse, he may have Another chance at living.