Daisy in the Doghouse
by Joe Barrett
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Pub Date 15 Aug 2019 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2019
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Description
What happens when an ex-CEO, frustrated with the corruption in the American financial system, hijacks his twelve-year-old daughter’s blog to try and change things from the bottom up? In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Jack Sullivan, former CEO and current stay-at-home dad, struggles to find an outlet for his frustrations with the unfair financial systems of corporate America. Meanwhile, Daisy, his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, has recently garnered a substantial following for her new blog, documenting surreptitious “social experiments” performed on her unaware family. When Daisy’s blogging activities are outed, Jack decides to leverage his daughter’s popularity with American youth to communicate the greed and hypocrisy inherent in the corporate professions of many parents. Inspired by her father’s rants, the popularity of Daisy’s blog soars, resulting in an unlikely sequence of events that ultimately has a very positive impact on way that people treat each other in American society.
Advance Praise
“Ambitious and appealing... it is rare to find such a readable book that attempts to deal so directly with a major (and fairly complex) social issue.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS
“This is an amazingly well-written novel that gives the reader a good dose of laughter and reminds us that greed should take a back seat to helping others.” –Sublime Book Review
“Joe Barrett's Daisy in the Doghouse is serious about America’s social ills, yet it wraps its message in a dark, yet witty send-up of the digital age.” –IndieReader
“Joe Barrett's latest novel Daisy in the Doghouse is another literary gem where he eviscerates societal ills with a comedic flair that is refreshing and surprisingly on point.” –Authors Reading
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781684333103 |
| PRICE | US$6.99 (USD) |
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Sublime Book R, Reviewer
Overall Rating = 4.75
Storyline & Concept = 5
Writing & Delivery = 5
Cover Marketability = 4
Editorial = 5
Daisy in the Doghouse by Joe Barrett (Managed Care, 2018) is a story revolving primarily around Daisy, a twelve-year-old girl, and her father Jack, currently a stay-at-home dad. The chemistry between the two is amazing and sets up some great humor throughout the story as they explore the limits of a blog, created by none other than Daisy herself. The blog was set up as a way for Daisy to create some sly little experiments targeted at her family to show some social awkwardness and silly humor. It is briefly used for just that purpose until her father, Jack, and the rest of the family find out. Her father hijacks the following his daughter has established as a platform to communicate the disgust he has for the corporate world to the American youth. This ultimately leads to a system that allows visibility and accountability to those that offer help and those that don’t.
Sublime Line: “This is an amazingly well-written novel that gives the reader a good dose of laughter and reminds us that greed should take a back seat to helping others.”
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