Generica

Edwin de Valu, an overworked and underpaid editor at New York's Panderic Press, is in trouble. He needs a hit for the coming season. In desperation he stakes his flagging career on a rambling self-help manuscript that promises its readers endless wealth, effortless weight loss and everlasting happiness. To Edwin's surprise, Tupak Soiree's magnum opus not only becomes a runaway bestseller but ushers in the global cult of "Happiness" (a word now trademarked by Panderic Press). It's up to Edwin to save American from Tupak (the "Stalin of the New Age") and his "neutron bomb of love."

Will Ferguson is a bestselling author whose work has spanned fiction, travel writing, history, and humour. His literary thriller 419 won the Giller Prize in 2012, and his novel The Finder received the 2021 Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction. A three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humor, he has been nominated for both the IMPAC Dublin Award and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Ferguson's travels have taken him around the globe. He lived in Japan for five years and regularly returns to visit his extended family. He is the author of the celebrated Japanese travel memoir Hitching Rides with Buddha (originally titled Hokkaido Highway Blues) and the budget The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan. He walked across Northern Ireland in Beyond Belfast, travelled Canada in Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, and journeyed through central Africa in Road Trip Rwanda. His debut novel, Happiness, was sold into 23 languages. Ferguson has written for The New York Times, Esquire UK, and Canadian Geographic. He lives in Calgary.