God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go

After stumbling on a festival for rescued greyhounds, Rick Paar, psychologist and writer, goes on a road trip to find how to be happy. He discovers his answer among people he meets on the way: protesters at Crawford Texas, true believers at the UFO Museum, mundane life in Los Alamos home of the Manhattan Project, artists in a rundown town in New Mexico, and especially in the hard-earned lessons from a ruptured relationship with his son. "In prose as lean and strong and graceful as a greyhound, Rick Paar works to understand human devotion. Sometimes funny, sometimes sweet, sometimes irreverent, sometimes deeply philosophical, God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go is at its core a brilliant exploration of love ... and loneliness ... and what it means to be family."
- Angie Abdou, author of The Bone Cage and This One Wild Life "In Rick Paar's short but infinitely intriguing memoir, God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go, we follow him in an On the Road journey across America as well as deep into the author's heart as he paints a picture of a country and its people-at once stark and beautiful, isolated and filled with subtle connections. God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go manages to create a powerful portrait of a man searching for a wide-open life."
- Michael C. White, author of Soul Catcher Another fine book from Meat For Tea Press.