The Contented

The Contented

Idiots’Books Volume IX

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The Contented

By Matthew Swanson Illustrated by Robbi Behr

This book is dedicated to the contented.

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This Idiots’Books creation is the product of collaboration between Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr. Their recent massacre of more than 83,000 pounds of wild Alaskan sockeye led to sore arms and puffy hands, factors that may have influenced the production of Idiots’Books this book.

Matthew Swanson is a writer/harmonica player/malcontent who has never, to his knowledge, been referred to as “swashbuckling.”

The story of The Contented came to him in a vivid dream that was not, to his knowledge, autobiographical.

Robbi Behr is an illustrator/fisherwoman/malcontent who has always had a hankering for swashbuckling men. Puffy hands notwithstanding, she enjoyed the opportunity this month to paint with sumi ink on rice paper, though she brooded miserably while deciding on the medium.

They live in a barn in Chestertown, Maryland.

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