{"product_id":"happiness-9780802129185","title":"Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Throughout \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel \u003ci\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation with a sublimely delicate touch.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--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 wardens--mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of London--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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802129185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Aminatta Forna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643409526940,"sku":"9780802129185","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fa8c4705-3e6c-464c-8aaa-b9d3bdcf245d.jpg?v=1603856575","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/happiness-9780802129185","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}