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A Happy Death

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A Happy Death

De : Dina Nayeri
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For readers of All Fours and Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, a woman leaves her high-powered NYC job and flees to Edinburgh hoping to live a happy and fully indulgent life before, as she sees it, her body goes to pot. But is there more to life than that?

Mina once had a life as a consultant that checked all the boxes of success: a cushy income, vacations to exotic destinations, such incredible prestige. She’s left all that behind to live in a small flat in Edinburgh, making just enough on freelance work to get by, determined to truly live a happy life; all it takes, she’s decided, is a combination of antidepressants, jiu jitsu lessons, and indulgent sex. But when she joins a local sauna and meets an eccentric older woman whose life is falling apart, while also dealing with an aging and terminal client, the purpose of Mina’s life suddenly, and very brightly, comes into focus.

Nayeri explores the ache for something more than the hamster wheel, the disappointments of love, the ludicrousness of middle-age fulfillment, and the monumental surprises that a life can bring with tenderness and wit and intelligence. For fans of Miranda July, Caroline O’Donogue, and Catherine Newman, Nayeri puts one singular woman at the center as she attempts to seize all she can out of life not just for herself, but for everyone around her.

Fiction Humour noir Littérature et fiction Vie de famille
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Commentaires

“Exhilarating, clever, kind and funny; I delight in writing like this that has cool intelligence and a warm heart.”—Sarah Moss, author of Ripeness and Ghost Wall
“A Happy Death is a tender, slyly comic novel about a woman who tries to be selfish and ends up opening her heart to the people around her. In Dina Nayeri’s capable hands, what starts out as an amusing character study expands into a moving exploration of what we owe to ourselves, our friends and neighbors, and even the strangers we encounter on dating apps, at the public sauna, and on the mat in jiu-jitsu class.”—Tom Perrotta, author of Ghost Town
"Nayeri faces our greatest fear head on: how do we approach our own death and how do we make sure we live as fully, exuberantly, and vividly as we can before that day arrives? The answer lies within these pages: community, chosen family, sensuality, and a joy that spreads unstoppably from the centre of a big heart into the world beyond. This is a brilliant, hilarious book."—Fiona Mozley, author of Elmet, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
​​“Dina Nayeri has gone deep into the wilds of midlife and emerged with something so hilarious, so real, and so delightfully, viscerally weird that it makes being lost in those wilds myself feel almost bearable.”—Emily Flake, New Yorker cartoonist and author of Mama Tried
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