AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics . A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives . "Required reading in these politically turbulent times."-Susan Orlean, author of On Animals"A rollicking satire .
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics . A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives . "Required reading in these politically turbulent times."-Susan Orlean, author of On Animals"A rollicking satire .