Deandra's Reviews > Dakota and the American Dream

What's more fitting, I ask you, at this time in our lives than a satire of "The American Dream"? In a world that was just crazed by mass toilet paper hoarding, "Dakota and the American Dream" by Sameer Garach brings a satirical spotlight to shine upon all that once was wrong with corporate America, in the days before social distancing. Told through the eyes of ten year old Dakota, "Dakota and the American Dream" immerses the reader in a wonderland utopia of nonsensical commercialism and doesn't stop until the MC is literally expelled out of a cannon because he has been fired due to old age.
Author Sameer Garach presents us with many examples of what an unsuspecting job candidate may experience while entering the workforce- how a job may not be the right fit but you take it anyway, how you can be clueless but still climb the corporate ladder, and how office politics can knock you from the top for seemingly no reason at all. I was surprised at how deep the parody went and how out of control the situations all seemed to Dakota, who didn't even want to start a career but was playing at being an adult, which I will admit hit a little close to home a time or two.

Thank you, Mr. Garach, for an interesting read. I don't know how you did it, but "Dakota and the American Dream" definitely left my head spinning and wondering just what it is we are all doing.