What Drives Men

A Gulf War vet battling PTSD is tricked into chauffeuring millionaire country music legend Billy Bud Wilcox from Newark to Colorado. Everything goes wrong. Tepper expertly skewers a vast collection of characters on a wildly entertaining road trip from hell. Kafka meets Lost in America in Susan Tepper's quirky irreverent and incisive novel What Drives Men. Part nightmare part slapstick comedy with a generous dose of social critique here everything slithers out of the flummoxed protagonist's control. -Beate Sigriddaughter author of Xanthippe and Her Friends Susan Tepper's What Drives Men is a picaresque masterpiece. Tepper's cast of characters: a Gulf War vet an octogenarian C&W singer and three twenty-three-year-olds are as diverse a group of nutcases you'll come across this side of The Master and Margarita. Tepper spins a marvelous tale sure to tickle the funny bone. - James Claffey author of Blood A Cold Blue