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A stunning debut from an award-winning poet. Populating a tiny town in the Pacific Northwest, the personas in Lucia Perillo's account collection all withstand giving the earth what it needs of these - and are surprised when the earth comes roaring again. An addict stuck in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the individuals who sell them door-to-door. An empty woman looks for consolation in stories of armed robbery told by one of her fellow suburban housewives. An accidental mother challenges to answer her daughter's badgering about her paternity. And in three reports viewers meet Louisa, a woman with Down syndrome who provides as an accomplice to her more youthful sister's erotic exploits and her aging mother's fantasies of revenge. Jointly, Happiness Is usually a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of feelings, just how they take in directions that often cancel each other out or twist their themes into knots. In lyrical prose, Perillo pulls on her behalf training as a naturalist and a poet to map the landscape of the comic and the tragic, asking how we make the restrictions between both of these areas. What's funny, what's heartbreaking, and who gets to make a decision? Lucia Perillo has printed five books of poetry and a assortment of essays. Her book Inseminating the Elephant gained the Bobbitt Reward and was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Reward in Poetry. Delight Is a Chemical in the Brain is her first work of fiction. She lives in Olympia, Washington.
