Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.
On New Years Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A middle-aged husband, bewildered by his failing marriage, redirects his anxiety toward a routine colonoscopy. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing visitation. A Russian hitman suffering from a mysterious lung ailment retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In stories about disparate characters grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary, Caroline Addersons A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happinessand how we so often seem to understand it through our encounters with the lives, and the stories, of others.
Genre: Literary Fiction
On New Years Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A middle-aged husband, bewildered by his failing marriage, redirects his anxiety toward a routine colonoscopy. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing visitation. A Russian hitman suffering from a mysterious lung ailment retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In stories about disparate characters grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary, Caroline Addersons A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happinessand how we so often seem to understand it through our encounters with the lives, and the stories, of others.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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