Michael Zadoorian

He later returned to Wayne State, where he studied with writers Charles Baxter, Samuel Astrachan and Christopher Towne Leland, winning three Tompkins Awards for fiction and essay and a Loughead-Eldridge Creative Writing Scholarship.

In 2009, William Morrow published his second novel, The Leisure Seeker, a road novel about John and Ella, an elderly couple who escape the doctors and adult children who control their lives, to take a final vacation together.

Also in 2009, Wayne State University Press published The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit, a collection of stories, which received a Michigan Notable Book Award.

Sony Pictures Classics acquired all rights for the U.S., Latin America, Asia (excluding Japan), Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa, and the film was released in March 2018 in the United States.

Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio–loving loner balancing a dysfunctional home life with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence.

[9] O, The Oprah Magazine named it one of the Top Books of Summer: “Danny Yzemski tunes out a dysfunctional family with Frank Zappa and Iggy Pop, shaking his countercultural fist at The Man in this eight-track flashback of a novel set in 1970s Detroit.

A comic novel about Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek, an aging creative-class couple long unmarried and without children, on the cusp of forty, caught between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development.

"[13] Publishers Weekly stated that “Zadoorian’s comedy of contemporary manners resonates by virtue of its introspective characters and depictions of the small moments in life that, taken together, have great significance.