The Year of Perfect Happiness: Volume 13

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2014.

The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes's 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781574415650
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/03/2014