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The happiest people in the world : a novel / by Brock Clarke.

The happiest people in the world : a novel / by Brock Clarke.
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ISBN 9781616201111 (hbk.)
1616201118 (hbk.)
Name Clarke, Brock author.
Title The happiest people in the world : a novel / by Brock Clarke.
Published Chapel Hill, North Carolina Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014.
Description 340 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary Theoretically, it's all the people who live in Denmark, the country that gave the world Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales and the open-face sandwich. But Denmark is also where some political cartoonists got into very unhappy trouble when they attempted to depict Muhammad in their drawings, which prompted protests, arson, and even assassination attempts. Imagine, then, that one of those cartoonists, given protection through the CIA, is relocated to a small town in upstate New York where he is given a job as a high school guidance counselor. Once there, he manages to fall in love with the wife of the high school principal, who himself is trying to get over the effects of a misguided love affair with the very CIA agent who sent the cartoonist to him. Imagine also that virtually every other person in this tiny town is a CIA operative. The result is a darkly funny tale of paranoia and the all-American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it, written in a tone that is simultaneously filled with wonder and anger in almost equal parts.
Subjects Cartoonists -- Fiction
Refugees -- Fiction
Danes -- United States -- Fiction
Genre Satire
Humorous fiction
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