Why Are You So Sad?

Have we all sunken into a species-wide bout of clinical depression? In Jason Porters hilarious and poignant debut novel, Why Are You So Sad?, listeners are introduced to Ray, a senior pictographer at LokiLoki. Ray feels disengaged from life, and comes to believe that the people around him are products of a grieving planet. He composes a survey, asking his motley assortment of colleagues questions like: “Are you who you want to be?â€, “If you were a day of the week, would you be Monday or Wednesday?â€, and “Do you believe in life after God?†Reminiscent of both Gary Shteyngart and George Saunders, Porters debut is an acutely perceptive and sharply funny meditation on what makes people tick.