Deep Fried

Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation's capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism.

One day he idly asks the sky: "Why am I here?"

Deep Fried is a tragicomic love story wrapped in creative freedom. Its chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs face a world of oversized dreams and shaky prospects.

They try, fail, and fail better. Will it be enough?

Mark Doyon received a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary and a master's in arts management from the Shenandoah Conservatory. He wrote the short-story collection 'Bonneville Stories' and edited the literary magazine Friction. His work has been featured in PopMatters, The Washington Post, The Daily Vault, Hybrid, Skope, The Absinthe Literary Review, 3AM Magazine, Hypebot, and Riffraf. 'Deep Fried' is his first novel.