02649cam a2200373 4500 1305266088 TxAuBib 20240606120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781952177064 1952177065 B0CCC4S66R Amazon f164c0d0-add5-4f32-8413-2fddf53a2421 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10012517 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pasaribu, Norman Erikson. Happy Stories, Mostly [Libby]. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 885kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:<p><b>In their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements.</b></p> <p>Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, <i>Happy Stories, Mostly</i> introduces "one of the most important Indonesian writers today" (<i>Litro Magazine</i>). These twelve short stories ask what it means to be almost happy—to nearly find joy, to sort-of be accepted, but to never fully grasp one's desire. Joy shimmers on the horizon, just out of reach.</p> <p>An employee navigates their new workplace, a department of Heaven devoted to archiving unanswered prayers; a tourist in Vietnam seeks solace following her son's suicide; a young student befriends a classmate obsessed with verifying the existence of a mythical hundred-foot-tall man. A tragicomic collection that probes the miraculous, melancholy nature of survival amid loneliness, <i>Happy Stories, Mostly</i> considers an oblique approach to human life: In the words of one of the stories' narrators, "I work in the dark. Like mushrooms. I don't need light to thrive."</p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-06-05 20:00:02. Tsao, Tiffany. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f164c0d0-add5-4f32-8413-2fddf53a2421&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f164c0d0-add5-4f32-8413-2fddf53a2421&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f164c0d0-add5-4f32-8413-2fddf53a2421&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) T3L