Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell

I bought this for my mom (how easy is it to buy a present for your mom?) because the author is a New Yorker cartoonist and we sometimes liked his work.

How can this book say so much about us and society with so few words? It's an amazing book that only takes 15 minutes to read, but will make you want to share it with countless others.

Kaplan's book is a small wonder, a wittily observant tale about two people who discover that the world we live in is Hell itself. Kaplan's wry humor gives us reason to believe things are about as bad as they can get: from the pointlessness of the arts to the garishness of McMansions, the bankruptcy of government to the spoils of Wal-Mart.