title: Daydreamers: Stories
author: Jonathan Harper
description: ''Tenants who destroy your rental apartment, corpses that wash ashore, old men in strip bars, bullies, failed fathers, estranged lovers, and very lost young men negotiating relationships with older ones--welcome to the world of Jonathan Harper's <i>Daydreamers</i>, whose assured prose style is turned with deadly accuracy on the crummy, sinister, banality of life in contemporary America. Harper's collection brings to mind a movie of an Anne Tyler novel, if it were directed by David Lynch. There is some original sin at the center of these lost lives. But what is it exactly? Whatever the answer, Harper's stories get better as they accumulate, until they take on the weight of an original artist's vision.'' -- --Andrew Holleran<br /><br />''A catalog of suburbia's petty desolations and meditations on lost chances; Harper makes for a keen archivist of his characters' flawed, unfinished manifestos.'' --Genevieve Valentine, author of <i>The Girls at the Kingfisher Club</i> and <i>Mechanique</i>
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  # Breakfast and Bedlam
  
  
  ### Day and Night Diner, Book 4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Gretchen Allen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 1](part0003.html#2RHM0-40a9aa9507054e409887ae0ae3a094ce)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0004.html#3Q280-40a9aa9507054e409887ae0ae3a094ce)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0005.html#4OIQ0-40a9aa9507054e409887ae0ae3a094ce)
  
  
  
  
  
  