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The Happiest People in the World: A Novel
The Happiest People in the World A Novel Author:Brock Clarke ?The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years . . . Yes! I thought as I read these pages. That?s how you write a good book.? ?Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief — The absurdity and distortion of reality that made Brock Clarke?s previous two novels, the bestselling An Arsonist?s Guide to Writers? Homes in New England, and Exley?which was ... more »picked by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of the year?so outrageously funny and yet so moving at the same time are on full display in his new novel, The Happiest People in the World.
Adapting the format of the political thriller and subverting it to tell his story of innocence corrupted, Clarke has delivered a biting and controversial satire on the American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it, along with a challenging reassessment of individual freedoms inherent in our ?pursuit of happiness? . . . at all costs.
?Brock Clarke?s hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder.? ?Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere
?Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.? ?Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision
?Playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird.?
?Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia
?A wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy.? ?Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang« less