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  title info:
    title: Small joys
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Mensah, Elvin James
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First US edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances. Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? It's 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness futile, he is on the verge of making a devastating final decision. Fortunately for him, things don't go according to plan, and his attempt on his own life is interrupted by his new roommate, Muddy. Muddy is everything Harley is not, white, ostensibly heterosexual, freewheeling, confident in his masculinity. Despite their differences, a deep friendship blossoms between them when Muddy takes Harley under his wing and shows him everything that, in his eyes, makes life worth living, birdwatching, karaoke, rugby and the band Oasis. But this newfound friendship is complicated. It has enormous repercussions for the pair's romantically entangled friend group-with Chelsea, an overbearing striver whose generosity they begrudgingly rely on, with Finlay, her raffish and uncouth boyfriend and with Noria, who despite her simmering confidence is smarting from a series of unreturned affections. And then there's the violent affair with an older man that Harley finds himself slipping back into... As secrets and jealousies endanger all that Harley has come to rely on, he finds himself faltering once again, even though he finally has something, and someone, to live for. Soul-stirring and witty, full of hope and peopled with characters who feel like close friends, Small Joys explores a young man's turbulent journey toward happiness and announces the arrival of an exciting voice in fiction.
  note: Elvin James Mensah.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Friendship
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Happiness
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: England
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6113.E568 S63 2023
  classification: 823/.92
  identifier: 9780593499962
  identifier: 0593499964
  identifier: 9781398514881
  identifier: 9781398514898
  identifier: 9780593499979
  identifier: 9781398514904
  identifier: 2022037761
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220812
    record change date: 20230609182411.3
    record identifier: in00004722450