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Happiness Unintentional
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Happiness Unintentional
A Novel
- Author
- L. C. Dialogos
- Publisher
- Love Dialogos Press
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Length
- Novel-length
- Genre
- Literary noir / psychological fiction / neurodivergent fiction
ISBNs
A Noir About a Debt That Won't Stop Growing
Alex Breisburg didn't see it coming. He never does. The diagnosis came thirty years too late to help him read a room.
So when a fight about money ends with his wife on the kitchen floor, he has no idea what to call what just happened. An accident. A confession. The first entry in a ledger that won't stop growing.
His best friend knows a guy. The guy knows a woman named J.P.: sharp, expensive, and very good at turning a favor into a lifetime subscription. Her price escalates. So does what she is.
By the time Alex understands what he's become, he's lost whole days to the bottle, is missing memories he doesn't trust, and has done something he can't undo. There is no clean ending waiting for him. There is only the next person willing to explain, patiently, exactly what he owes.
Happiness Unintentional is a noir about masking, exploitation, and the particular cruelty of a self-help book that was never written for a mind like his.
Funny in places you will feel bad about laughing at.
"A system can make you better, and it can make you disappear, and Alex cannot tell which one is happening to him."
A self-help story executed poorly.
About the Author
L. C. Dialogos
LMFT, Clinical Supervisor, Founder of Love Psychotherapy
L. C. Dialogos is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical supervisor, and the founder of Love Psychotherapy. They write at the intersection of neurodivergent experience, relational dynamics, and dark literary fiction.
L. C. Dialogos is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and clinical supervisor with over a decade of experience working with neurodivergent adults, couples, and families. Happiness Unintentional is their debut novel, a work of literary psychological fiction that draws on clinical insight to render the interior life of a late-diagnosed AuDHD protagonist with uncommon precision. They are based in the United States.
Key Quotes for Press
"Dialogos gives us Alex Breisburg: a man who catalogues the world down to the exact chime frequency of a smoke detector. What sets this book apart is how genuinely it captures an AuDHD experience."
"A system can make you better, and it can make you disappear, and Alex cannot tell which one is happening to him."
"Funny in places you will feel bad about laughing at."
"The particular cruelty of a self-help book that was never written for a mind like his."
Press Contact
L. C. Dialogos
Available for interviews, podcast appearances, and review copies.