{"product_id":"9781574415797","title":"The Year of Perfect Happiness","description":"The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes' debut collection explore the secret lives of people--how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants--and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly.  In The Year of Perfect Happiness, the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires.  \"In The Year of Perfect Happiness, Becky Adnot-Haynes puts her smart and funny prose to expert use, patiently delving the radiant mysteries we keep from strangers, from ourselves, from the people we love the most: Our joys and sorrows, our hidden hurts and unforgettable mistakes and untellable secrets, secrets which Adnot-Haynes' excellent stories suggest we want only to be forced to share, craving the moment when we're at last revealed in all our imperfect but stunning humanity.\"--Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods and judge","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173776834800,"sku":"9781574415797","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574415797_p0.jpg?v=1763797278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574415797","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}