He came to America looking for freedom.
America had other plans.
What if you're following a path you never chose?
Daniel Brant buys a one-way ticket to the United States with no plan, no contacts, and barely enough money to last a week. What follows is stranger than ambition, funnier than it ought to be, and far more difficult to explain.
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I thought I knew what I was doing.
I thought I had control.
I thought I was free.
I was wrong.
I just didn't know it yet.
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“A city saves no one. A city condemns no one. It simply meets who you are when you arrive.”
American Bad Dream
“American Bad Dream isn’t a novel about America. It’s a novel about what America reveals.”
About the novel
“God knows I tried.”
— Daniel Brant, Chapter 33
“Familiar misery can feel safer
than uncertain freedom.”
American Bad Dream
Inspired by true events, set across the United States — from the American South to California. A man arrives with expectations. America dismantles them, city by city, decision by decision.
Easy to read. Hard to catch everything.
You’ll get the story.
The question is what else you’ll see.
“A novel about the paths we inherit — and the moment we stop following them.”
American Bad Dream
“A bad dream isn’t the opposite of a dream.
It’s the shadow that lives inside it.”
American Bad Dream
Savio Brayner lived in the United States for three years. American Bad Dream is his first novel written in English.
“I didn’t write about a side of America.
I wrote about a man who arrived
believing in all of it at once.”
“I don’t know what you’ll think of me
when it’s over.
But I can promise you this:
blood, sweat, and tears.”
They come looking for different things.
America is just where they all arrive.
American Bad Dream
The road is not calling.
It is waiting.
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