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Everyone's Happy
2020
First Published
3.00
Average Rating
33
Number of Pages

From the critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen and The Girls from Corona del Mar comes a darkly humorous story that charts the unlikely friendship of two women and exposes the absurdity of everything from playground drama to marriage to Goodreads reviews. Motherhood has turned out to be a lot weirder and lonelier than Mary anticipated - has the world gone crazy, or has she? Most of the time, it feels like both. But when her oldest starts kindergarten, Mary meets another mom, Fiona, and the two form an unusual yet exhilarating friendship. There’s only one problem: Mary doesn’t really like Fiona’s husband, Andreas. What begins as a minor irritation keeps intensifying and changing shape in Mary’s mind as Andreas’s perceived wrongdoings pile up, until she can’t distinguish integrity from self-sabotage. Everyone’s Happy is both an unnervingly honest examination of the shifting loyalties between family and friendship and a love letter to the absurd banalities of suburban life.

Avg Rating
3.00
Number of Ratings
468
5 STARS
10%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
46%
2 STARS
23%
1 STARS
6%
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Author

Rufi Thorpe
Rufi Thorpe
Author · 5 books
Rufi Thorpe received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was long listed for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her second novel, Dear Fang, With Love, is forthcoming from Knopf in May 2016. She lives in California with her husband and two sons.
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