Happy stories, mostly, Norman Erikson Pasaribu ; translated by Tiffany Tsao
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Happy stories, mostly, Norman Erikson Pasaribu ; translated by Tiffany Tsao
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Happy stories, mostly
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1345221750
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Norman Erikson Pasaribu ; translated by Tiffany Tsao
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"Happy Stories, Mostly is a short story collection by queer Indonesian author Norman Erikson Pasaribu. Blending together speculative fiction and absurdism, these 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"--, Provided by publisherThese 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. 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, Happy Stories, Mostly considers an oblique approach to human In the words of one of the stories' narrators, "I work in the dark. Like mushrooms. I don't need light to thrive."
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