Little Lance Pototschnik wanted to grow up and play pro football, but that pipe dream got smoked by his lethargic growth hormones and a terrible skin disorder. The death of his childhood aspirations did, however, plant the seeds for Lance to find comedy in rejection and suffering.

In this gaspingly funny collection of stories, Lance's battle with disease, his overbearing parents, and his maniacal bosses push him toward the startling discovery that the daily grind--which scrapes the gold off even the best of us--is the very thing that reveals what we are truly made of. This book is for every intellectual slacker whose very soul is straining against the chains of a dead-end job, a disease, or bad culture. Golden Monkey is a hysterical and bittersweet look at the dark moments that define us, and the triumphant aftermath when we get to say, with all our hearts, that we know exactly who the hell we are.

This story had one of the saddest, most honest and powerful paragraphs I think I have ever read. It was then shortly followed by an ending that made me laugh out loud, literally. --Read_by_Red

"Humorous" may be the wrong word to describe this book. "Hilarious" better fits the tone. --JD Jung, Underrated Reads