by Cameron Conant

Cameron Conant hoped that after a painful divorce, he might one day be happy again. And suddenly he was--or so it seemed. His twenty-eighth birthday brought a beautiful woman, a high-paying job, a new city, and his first book published. But Conant's twenty-ninth birthday was spent on a midnight train through Germany, alone, depressed, everything he needed in a backpack.

He had found happiness more elusive than he'd anticipated.

Paralleling the themes in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, The Year I Got Everything I Wanted is poignant and provocative, heartbreaking and hilarious--a spiritual memoir that explores despair and pleasure with disquieting honesty.