{"product_id":"2940170530229","title":"Happiness: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom award-winning writer Aminatta Forna, a stunning novel bringing an American scientist and a Ghanaian psychologist together in London in a hunt for a missing boyamp;mdash;and an expansive, subtle tale of loss, hope, love, compassion, culture, and the true meaning of happiness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collideamp;mdash;Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of friends, his \"niece\" who hasn't called home in a while. Ama has been swept up in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen, by chance, Attila runs into Jean again, she mobilizes the network of rubbish men she uses as volunteer fox spotters. Security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardensamp;mdash;mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of Londonamp;mdash;come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile a consulting case causes Attila to question the impact of his own ideas on trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105002373360,"sku":"2940170530229","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170530229_p0.jpg?v=1769904436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170530229","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}