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Villarreal-Moura, Ursula

 
9781911590927: Like Happiness

Synopsis

A 'deeply felt and achingly intimate' (Annie Lord) debut novel about the complexities of gender, power, race and fame for readers of Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan and Madeleine Grey's Green Dot

I made up my mind to meet you. Your book had cast a spell on me the previous night. What better way to stay spellbound than to orbit the magician?

You write your favourite author a fan letter and he writes back. An intoxicating, undefinable, all consuming relationship ensues. Ten years later, a slew of allegations emerge that will shatter the story you have told yourself, leaving behind a blank page for something new...

Like Happiness is a headfirst dive into a young woman's destructive obsession with a legendary writer. Razor-sharp, delectably witty, and told with blistering emotional honesty, this electric debut novel reckons with the stories we choose to believe, about the past, our relationships and above all about ourselves.

'An epic unravelling of every love story, reclaimed as something sharp, seething, unsettling, and true' T KIRA MADDEN

'A stunning swirl of a coming-of-age novel about power, manipulation, and complicity' MEGAN GIDDINGS

'Accomplishes a profound emotional electrocution that will leave you floating lighter for days' XOCHITL GONZALEZ

'A moving portrait of the vulnerabilities of young womanhood' TODAY.COM

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NetGalley reviewers love Like Happiness:

'Beautifully written and unputdownable... I would read this over and over again'

'I simply love this book'

'My jaw was on the floor... I'd recommend it for fans of My Dark Vanessa'

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À propos de l'auteur

URSULA VILLARREAL-MOURA is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling, selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press Fiction Contest Winner. A graduate of Middlebury College, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was a VONA/Voices fellow. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, a Pushcart Prize, and longlisted for Best American Short Stories in 2015.

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