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YOUlysses (softcover)

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YOUlysses: Short Writings, Illustrations, and Trivia

YOUlysses is a genre-blurring collection of short fiction, poetry, illustrated cartoons, and trivia from author Louis L. Lasser IV. It's a book that refuses to sit still in any single category, much like the mind that made it.

At its heart is a fictional mythology: Theo and Penny, two lovers who speak almost entirely in puns and parallel philosophies, watch their daughter Daisy grow into a time-traveling physicist racing to save Earth from a comet born of Orion's gluttony. Interwoven are eight short stories built entirely around classic palindromes, each one ending exactly where its title points.

The book widens its lens from there. A chapter of unapologetically over-the-top Google reviews turns local dentists, bowling alleys, and sandwich shops into the stuff of epic poetry. A gallery of single-panel cartoons takes on politics, anatomy, evolution, and love with deadpan visual wit. A run of real trivia questions, road-tested at the author's own restaurant, Schnitzels, invites readers to test their knowledge of sports, science, music, and pop culture.

But YOUlysses is also a book of real tenderness. Tributes to his fiancée, siblings, and friends sit alongside eulogies for departed cultural icons and, most movingly, for the author's grandparents, a nearly century-long love story rendered in full. A wedding officiant's speech and a marriage proposal close the collection, grounding all the wordplay and wonder in the real love that inspired it.

Equal parts absurdist mythology, linguistic puzzle box, comedy showcase, and family memoir, YOUlysses asks its readers to laugh, solve, remember, and feel, often within the same page. It's a book built the way its author thinks: in petals, palindromes, and possibility.

YOUlysses: Short Writings, Illustrations, and Trivia

YOUlysses is a genre-blurring collection of short fiction, poetry, illustrated cartoons, and trivia from author Louis L. Lasser IV. It's a book that refuses to sit still in any single category, much like the mind that made it.

At its heart is a fictional mythology: Theo and Penny, two lovers who speak almost entirely in puns and parallel philosophies, watch their daughter Daisy grow into a time-traveling physicist racing to save Earth from a comet born of Orion's gluttony. Interwoven are eight short stories built entirely around classic palindromes, each one ending exactly where its title points.

The book widens its lens from there. A chapter of unapologetically over-the-top Google reviews turns local dentists, bowling alleys, and sandwich shops into the stuff of epic poetry. A gallery of single-panel cartoons takes on politics, anatomy, evolution, and love with deadpan visual wit. A run of real trivia questions, road-tested at the author's own restaurant, Schnitzels, invites readers to test their knowledge of sports, science, music, and pop culture.

But YOUlysses is also a book of real tenderness. Tributes to his fiancée, siblings, and friends sit alongside eulogies for departed cultural icons and, most movingly, for the author's grandparents, a nearly century-long love story rendered in full. A wedding officiant's speech and a marriage proposal close the collection, grounding all the wordplay and wonder in the real love that inspired it.

Equal parts absurdist mythology, linguistic puzzle box, comedy showcase, and family memoir, YOUlysses asks its readers to laugh, solve, remember, and feel, often within the same page. It's a book built the way its author thinks: in petals, palindromes, and possibility.

YOUlysses is a genre-blurring collection of short fiction, poetry, illustrated cartoons, and trivia from author Louis L. Lasser IV. It's a book that refuses to sit still in any single category, much like the mind that made it.

At its heart is a fictional mythology: Theo and Penny, two lovers who speak almost entirely in puns and parallel philosophies, watch their daughter Daisy grow into a time-traveling physicist racing to save Earth from a comet born of Orion's gluttony. Interwoven are eight short stories built entirely around classic palindromes, each one ending exactly where its title points.

The book widens its lens from there. A chapter of unapologetically over-the-top Google reviews turns local dentists, bowling alleys, and sandwich shops into the stuff of epic poetry. A gallery of single-panel cartoons takes on politics, anatomy, evolution, and love with deadpan visual wit. A run of real trivia questions, road-tested at the author's own restaurant, Schnitzels, invites readers to test their knowledge of sports, science, music, and pop culture.

But YOUlysses is also a book of real tenderness. Tributes to his fiancée, siblings, and friends sit alongside eulogies for departed cultural icons and, most movingly, for the author's grandparents, a nearly century-long love story rendered in full. A wedding officiant's speech and a marriage proposal close the collection, grounding all the wordplay and wonder in the real love that inspired it.

Equal parts absurdist mythology, linguistic puzzle box, comedy showcase, and family memoir, YOUlysses asks its readers to laugh, solve, remember, and feel, often within the same page. It's a book built the way its author thinks: in petals, palindromes, and possibility.