**"This madcap adventure mixes small-town teachers, barkeeps, teenagers, and fry-cooks with international spies, terrorists, and political refugees. But it is the writing itself that is the true star here, as Clarke delves deep into the hidden and mixed emotions we carry for the ones we love, turnin
The Happiest People in the World: A Novel
β Scribed by Clarke, Brock
- Book ID
- 108600169
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616204297
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