I haven't read “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World” yet but it's been highly recommended by multiple friends-including my mother-in-law. The author, Eric Weiner, is an award-winning foreign correspondent for NPR and is a former reporter for The New York Times. He has written stories from more than three dozen countries from Afghanistan to Tokyo. From Amazon:
“Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of 'un-unhappiness.' The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy?” With engaging wit and surprising insights those questions and many others.
Grab it: Grab “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World” by Eric Weiner from $11.26 on Amazon here.
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