Small Joys

✍ Scribed by Elvin James Mensah

• Book ID: 111362145
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593499962

✦ Synopsis

An unexpected friendship saves a young man’s life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances._
Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?_
It’s 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England, where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness futile, Harley is on the verge of making a devastating final decision. Fortunately for him, things don’t go according to plan, and his attempt on his own life is interrupted by his new roommate, Muddy.
Muddy is everything Harley is not: ostensibly heterosexual, freewheeling, confident in his masculinity. Despite their differences, a deep friendship blossoms between them when Muddy takes Harley under his wing and shows him everything that, in his eyes, makes life worth living: bird-watching,...