Maira
Kalman. And the Pursuit of Happiness. Penguin, 2010.
This book was
written/drawn/ created in response to the first Obama inauguration. I
remember my own feelings of surprise and hope for the future. I'm
glad I waited until now, the end of the era, just before a much less
auspicious incoming, to read this.
And the Pursuit of Happiness is a love poem to America, a
celebration, of original intentions, origins in the Great Man theory
of history - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. And great people, mostly
public servants, the writer meets on her explorations. And also a
recognition that there are some problems. The stalled legislative
system. The many and varied forms of food insecurity. Whimsical. Wonderful.
