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Pasaribu, Norman Erikson.
Happy Stories, Mostly
[Libby].
The Feminist Press at CUNY,
2023.
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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>.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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