Woke Up Laughing

byJon Stephen Fink

A funny, alarmingly perceptive novel about the dreams we all dream.Chest pains send Harris Porter -- mid-forties, middle-management -- to a psychotherapist and when it’s his turn to tell her about his life and problems he chokes. Embarrassed, inadequate and about to be judged, he makes up a life, based on what he thinks is going on in the life of his friend, the charismatic entrepreneurial Terry Garland. What happens to a man when he lies to his therapist? What use is the advice he gets about this fictitious life? If that man is Harris Porter -- he takes the advice and starts living the fable.Show more