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FROM THE Country wide BOOK Prize–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE Book ABOUT THE Finding OF THE HAPPINESS GENE
When Chicagoan Russell Rock finds himself educating an innovative Nonfiction school, he encounters a Algerian girl with a disturbingly luminous existence. Thassadit Amzwar’s blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How do this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won’t someone so available and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell studies her war-torn country and skims through popular joy manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell’s amateur questions lead him to university counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa’s spell. Dubbed Neglect Generosity by her classmates, Thassa’s joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic advancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to declare the genotype for joy.
Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing multimedia circus. Thassa’s congenital optimism is soon significantly examined. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large.
What may happen to life when science recognizes the genetic basis of joy? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and finally magical, Generosity celebrates both knowledge and the freed creativeness. In his most exuberant e book yet, Richard Power asks us to consider the top questions facing humankind even as we begin to rewrite our own existence.
