All Our Happy Days Are Stupid: A Play

✍ Scribed by Heti, Sheila

• Book ID: 108083852
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781940450803

✦ Synopsis

Two couples, each with a twelve-year-old child, travel to Paris; within a few moments of discovering each other in a crowd, one of their children disappears. A day later, one of the mothers disappears, too. The story that follows is a wonderfully strange, beautifully composed examination of happiness and desperation, complete with a man in a bear suit, a teen pop star, and eight really excellent songs.
Sheila Heti's debut play was first commissioned in 2001, for a feminist theater company that never ended up staging it. Its turbulent creation became the backdrop of Heti's last novel, How Should a Person Be? , which was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and the New Yorker --and now the play itself can be revealed at last. With new introductions by Sheila Heti and director Jordan Tannahill, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid offers a novel's worth of wisdom and humor, of wild hope and dreamlike confrontations, and page after page of...