
Happiness: A Memoir
The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
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Heather Harpham
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Heather Harpham
A shirt-grabbing love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.
Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her: "Get dressed. Your baby is in trouble."
This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood - alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together, Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood.
The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions - new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately, it's a story about love and happiness in their many crooked configurations.
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Editorial reviews
Editors Select, August 2017
As a motherless non-mother, I didn’t expect to identify this much with a memoir about raising a sick child, about the impossible choices parenting requires, about having to hold fear and hope in the same hand. But the writing is so blazingly good, true, and precise that sentence after sentence had me nodding with recognition: Yes, I know this exactly. Heather Harpham is a writer of such ability and intelligence that her struggle becomes your struggle; her revelation about the true state of happiness becomes your revelation. Hearing it in her own voice only makes that connection more personal. —Erin, Audible Editor
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This is a beautifully written, moving story rich in luscious metaphors. However, there were some mistakes either in the writing or the narration: use of contraception where conception should have been used, use of arteries where veins should have been used, and....."nucular." Given the amount of medical content in this book, they probably should have consulted with someone who has medical background.beautiful writing with some cringe-worthy mistakes
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But also forgiveness.
Not to mention...to the author , bless you for your honesty , resilience
And one of the most articulate captivating and refreshing prose
that I have ever read.
I hope you continue healing us.
Thank you Thank you Thank you.
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Thank You!
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A profoundly moving book, especially for parents
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Great Narrator
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Loved it!
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Brilliant. Heartfelt.
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Capturing a Mothers heart
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You listen with your whole heart.
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I did not want to stop listening very intriguing
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