The Other Half of Happiness

The Other Half of Happy

✍ Rebecca Balcárcel 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Chronicle Books LLC 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. B

The Other Half of Happy

✍ Balcárcel, Rebecca 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Chronicle Books LLC 🌐 English ⚖ 281 KB 👁 2 views

Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. B

The Half-life of Happiness

✍ John Casey 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 664 KB

From the winner of the 1989 National Book Award (for Spartina), a major new novel—wise, sad, and richly comic—about the meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime co

The Half-Life of Happiness (Vintage Cont

The Half-Life of Happiness (Vintage Contemporaries)

📂 Standards 🏛 Doubleday 🌐 English ⚖ 210 KB

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

✍ Manu Joseph 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2013 🏛 HarperCollins Canada 🌐 en-US ⚖ 213 KB 👁 2 views

Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being " the last of the real men." His wife, Mariamma, finds ways to feed her family despite their lack of money, but in her spare time she fantasizes about Ousep' s early death. One day, their seventeen-year-old son, Unni-- a boy obses

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

✍ Joseph, Manu 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 John Murray Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 194 KB

Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being “the last of the real men.” This includes waking neighbors upon returning late from the pub. His wife Mariamma stretches their money, raises their two boys, and, in her spare time, gleefully fantasizes about Ousep dying. One day,