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A shirt-grabbing love history that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require practically unimaginable options. Happiness commences with a wonderful courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California lady, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody article writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Top West Side studio. Their mysterious interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he is in love with her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather profits to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere time after Gracie's entrance, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her: "Get outfitted. Your child is in big trouble." This isn't how Heather possessed thought new motherhood - alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like chopped up apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition develops dire; along, Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their lady considers adulthood. The elegance and laughter that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental doubts into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions - new, passionate love; gratitude for a lovely, inscrutable world; deep, abiding companionship; the love a mother or father has for a kid; and the many improbable ways to create a family. In the end, it's a tale about love and pleasure in their many crooked configurations.
