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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book confused me. An unhappyman and his wife live with theiryoung son. The wife wants anotherchild. The man refuses to allowthe wife to have another child,but he has a child with hisresearch co-worker. The baby isgiven a happiness gene. The babynever cries, not even when heis severely cut or stung by a wasp.But what is this story about? Whatwas the author trying to say?And what did the ending mean?I have no idea. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Her acclaimed story collection, At the Sign of the Naked Waiter, showcased Amy Herrick's gift for language, exuberant humor, and boundless imagination. In her charming debut novel, The Happiness Code, that gift has come to fruition. "A few days or a few years" into the future, an ordinary Brooklyn family is going about the business of living. Pinky longs for a second child, but her husband, Arthur, broods unceasingly about the sorrows of the planet and feels it needs fewer people on board, not more. They are both seeking happiness in their own way-as are the novel's other indelibly drawn characters, from catastrophe-minded seven-year-old Teddy and Oedipus the family cat to Pinky's abrasive forensic psychologist friend, Fran. It is the discovery of a perfectly happy abandoned baby in their garden, and then his disappearance, that changes all their lives. The Happiness Codeis at once a romance, a mystery, and a fairy tale-laced with hard questions about destiny and its new challenger, biotechnology. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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