Everyone's Happy
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Everyone's Happy
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Narrated by:
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Lauren Fortgang
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By:
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Rufi Thorpe
About this listen
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.
©2020 Rufi Thorpe (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.Listeners also enjoyed...
I completely adored this short story. I was just talking to my partner about how I have come to discover just how much I enjoy these viscerally human stories of people, most often women, in such raw and emotional situations that are simply their lives. This extrapolation of how life happens and we find ourselves floating out to sea with no idea how we got there, or rather knowing, but having been made to feel we need to keep quiet and not even see it. There's just something so powerful about short stories like this that drag me into the lives of these people and rain their emotional blows, trials, and tribulations upon me that gives me some kind of connection and empathy that helps with my own difficulties. The short story format works so perfectly for these rich slivers of another's experience, and this is an exemplary example of that.
The performance is really something and makes the writing sing.
I wish I had more brainpower and better words to describe just how wonderful I found this story. I heartily recommend it, though your mileage may vary, and I will absolutely be reading more from this author.
Beautifully Gutpunching & Utterly Heartrending
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