Happy stories, mostly /
These twelve short stories ask what it means to be almost happy, to nearly find joy, to sort-of be accepted, but to never fully grasp one's desire. Joy shimmers on the horizon, just out of reach. An employee navigates their new workplace, a department of Heaven devoted to archiving unanswered p...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Indonesian. |
| Published: |
New York :
Feminist Press, at the City University of New York,
[2023].
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | These twelve short stories ask what it means to be almost happy, to nearly find joy, to sort-of be accepted, but to never fully grasp one's desire. Joy shimmers on the horizon, just out of reach. An employee navigates their new workplace, a department of Heaven devoted to archiving unanswered prayers, a tourist in Vietnam seeks solace following her son's suicide, a young student befriends a classmate obsessed with verifying the existence of a mythical hundred-foot-tall man. A tragicomic collection that probes the miraculous, melancholy nature of survival amid loneliness, Happy Stories, Mostly considers an oblique approach to human In the words of one of the stories' narrators, "I work in the dark. Like mushrooms. I don't need light to thrive." |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | "The original Indonesian-language versions of the stories in this book were first published in Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2020)"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 146 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781952177057 1952177057 |