<p>Approved by the Environment Protection Agency is a sensitive exploration of the unfamiliar landscapes that a Central European teenager in an age of anxiety encounters. From the almost post-apocalyptic title story's social realistic scenes through the absurd decay present in the house of &quot;Auntie Juci vs Bentham&quot; to the Beckett-like ruins of a very average Hungarian house party in &quot;Indoors Balcony&quot; these short stories glimpse into a universal and at the same time unique 21st-century experience of life on the borders of childhood and adulthood East and West.</p>