Ruth Whippman
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly perplexed by the American obsession with one topic above all others: happiness. The subject came up everywhere: at the playground swings, at the meat counter in the supermarket, and even?legs in stirrups?at the gynecologist. The omnipresence of these happiness conversations...