Mordy is a teenage boy who has killed himself. He lives in a place with the rest of the suicides. They all show signs of how they died: people who hanged themselves have broken necks and people who shot themselves have bullet wounds. Mordy is a Juliet, or somebody who was offed by poison. He and his friend Uzi soon find out that Mordy's girlfriend, Desiree, has offed herself as well. They set off on a quest to find Desiree, but on the way, they come across a "camp" run by a man named Kneller. Miracles happen all the time at this camp, but only miracles that don't matter. They hear of the "King Messiah" (quite obviously Jesus, as his name is Joshua and he can perform miracles that are planned and not insignificant) and go to find him and hopefully Desiree.
Suicides are put into a strange world that seems a bit worse, but has many redeeming qualities: who wouldn't want their water to randomly come out as soda? Every character except for Uzi and Mordy seems to be in the periphery, but you put down the book knowing a lot about everybody. The chapters are short and a lot of them end on a punchline. Even though apparently there has been a movie made after it,
Kneller's Happy Campers is a pretty obscure book, which is a shame, because it's also pretty good.
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