The Promise of ElsewhereBy: Brad Leithauser A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime. Louie Hake is forty three and teaches architectural history at a third rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat