The Friends of FreelandBy: Brad Leithauser In this roomy, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island country, Freeland, during a crucial election year. Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. A geological miracle, it is desolate ("What green is to Ireland, gray is to Freeland") and inspiring. The "friends" of the title are Hannibal, an expansive, lovable, unruly giant of a man who