Read by David Pittou. "A Macmillan audiobook from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux" -- Disc surface.
Summary:
Russell Stone is teaching creative nonfiction in Chicago when he meets a young Algerian woman with "a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell." His curiosity about her happiness despite her refugee status leads a geneticist to research further and announce discovery of a genotype for happiness. This fantasy fiction asks us to consider both science and imagination as humankind rewrite[s] our own existence." -- Publisher description.
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