β Scribed by Kristyn Kusek Lewis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the beloved author ofHalf of What You Hear, a perceptive and poignant novel about a woman discovering that her expertise can only get her so far in matters of the heart.
Charlotte McGanleyknowshappiness. Just ask anyone whoβs readPerfect Happiness, her bestselling book about how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positive psychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her career beginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now sheβs become a bit of a self-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, who has secretly never been more miserable.
Though her husband of many years, Jason, is her partner in all things, she finds more gratification most evenings in a glass (or three) of Chardonnay or another scroll through her Instagram feed. Meanwhile, their daughter, Birdie, is feeling the pressure of being her high schoolβs star tennis player, keeping up her GPA, and having her first boyfriendβand Charlotte, despite all her expertise, has no idea how to help her.
As Charlotte preaches the gospel of happiness to her undergraduate students, audiences across the country, and her own online followers, sheβs faced with some tough questions: What is happiness when the family youβve nurtured starts to fall apart in front of your eyes? When your daughter seems determined to self-destruct? When the man you thought youβd spend the rest of your life withβand took for granted because of itβgets fed up? When all of the tools that you push to your loyal followers just donβt seem to work?
In this bittersweet family love story, Kristyn Kusek Lewis explores how easy it is to lose connection with the people closest to us, and what happens when we try to find our way back.
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