This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and style of a history of the town and later ones chronicle the lives, activities and concerns of the towns inhabitants. This is the funniest, most original book Ive read in a long time ... it is also something new in comic This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and style of a history of the town and later ones chronicle the lives, activities and concerns of the towns inhabitants. This is the funniest, most original book Ive read in a long time ... it is also something new in comic writing, a gem, a masterpiece, a modern classic, better than all that, it is something that will make you laugh out loud. - Stanley Reynolds, Punch