Winner of the Alex Award. For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew he's smart enough to know that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life. But how? He's not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what's next for Mike Muñoz? In this funny, biting, touching, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man determined to achieve the American dream of happiness and prosperity who just so happens to find himself along the way.