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By claire stanford, by claire stanford read by traci kato-kiriyama, category: women's fiction | literary fiction, category: women's fiction | literary fiction | audiobooks.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE  NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY GLAMOUR , ELECTRIC LIT , AND THE MILLIONS   “Engrossing and clever . . . Stanford captures the allure, absurdity and menace of corporate spaces with wit and levity . . . Anyone who has resisted fitting neatly into an algorithm will find a companion in Evelyn, and in this book.” — The New York Times Book Review “ The optimal novel for the strange times we find ourselves in.” —Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin   A whip-smart, funny, affecting novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking to break into the “happiness market”—even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than ever Four years into writing her still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and anticipating a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto is wrestling with big questions about life: How can she do meaningful work in the world? Is she ready for marriage—and motherhood? But no one else around her seems to share her ambivalence. Her relentlessly optimistic, Midwestern boyfriend has no hesitation about making a lifelong commitment; her best friend, Sharky, seems to have wholeheartedly embraced his second-choice career as a trend forecaster; and her usually reserved father has thrown himself headlong into a new relationship—his first since her mother’s passing when Evelyn was fourteen.    Swallowing her doubts, Evelyn makes a leap, leaving academia for a job as a researcher at the third-most popular internet company, where her team is tasked with developing an app that will help users quantify and augment their happiness. Confronting Silicon Valley’s norm-reinforcing algorithms and predominantly white culture, she struggles to find belonging: as a biracial person, as an Asian American, and as someone who doesn’t know how to perform social media’s vision of what womanhood should look like. As her misgivings mount, an unexpected development upends her assumptions about her future, and Evelyn embarks on a journey toward an authentic happiness all her own.   Wry, touching, and sharply attuned to the ambivalence, atomization, and illusion of control that characterize modern life, Happy for You is a story of a young woman at a crossroads that movingly explores how, even in this mediated world, our emotions, contradictions, and vulnerabilities have a transformative power we could never predict.

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Claire Stanford’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Electric Lit, Literary Hub, and other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in… More about Claire Stanford

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“Engrossing and clever . . . Stanford captures the allure, absurdity and menace of corporate spaces with wit and levity . . . the third act of the book delivers emotional resolve and warmth . . . Stanford rewards the reader with many thought-provoking and eerie moments . . . Anyone who has resisted fitting neatly into an algorithm will find a companion in Evelyn, and in this book.” — The New York Times Book Review “If you enjoyed Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, read Happy for You by Claire Stanford . . . [A] snappy addition to the office novel canon.” — The Washington Post “While Stanford’s portrait of a tech company is funny, trenchant, and exactly as barbed as it should be about life in Big Tech, Happy for You is up to something else. The novel is really a meditation on happiness wrapped inside a Silicon Valley satire. It succeeds on the strength of its characterization of Evelyn, who is at a crossroads in her personal life and intent on living inside the emotional nuances her workplace is intent on stamping out.” — WIRED “Through the lens of norm-reinforcing social media, Happy for You weaves a scathing send-up of Silicon Valley and a meditation on how human emotionality defies automation.” — Esquire “Get ready to be as drawn into this story as you would be to any shiny, user-friendly ‘five minutes a day to more happiness!’ app.” — Glamour , “The Best Books of 2022 to Add to Your Reading List” “Silicon Valley dystopia meets emotional analysis.” — Alta “A resonant meditation on what it means to be happy in an increasingly tech-saturated world . . . At turns thoughtful, funny, and startling, Stanford’s writing perfectly captures her protagonist’s aimlessness.” — Publishers Weekly “A rumination on modern happiness . . . [with] an emotional twist in the later chapters . . . The myriad ways [Evelyn’s] biracial identity causes friction throughout the novel provide moments of wit and insight.” — Kirkus Reviews “Philosophical, tender, and full of dazzling observations, Claire Stanford has written a fiercely insightful portrait of interiority in the time of self-optimizing apps and social media. Reading it is an awakening, a brisk infusion of life and feeling.” —Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun “A penetrating debut that asks not just what is happiness, but what it means to be whole.  A striking exploration of the mind, the computer, of human behavior, animal behavior, and the emotions, from the brightest joys to the deepest sorrows, that connect us all.” —Weike Wang, author of Joan is Okay “ Happy for You is the optimal novel for the strange times we find ourselves in. In prose that’s at once droll, incisive, and moving, Claire Stanford covers a murderer’s row of twenty-first century preoccupations: technology, privacy, and contentment in the time of capitalism. This is a book for anyone who’s ever looked around at this brave new world—and wondered about your own place in it.” —Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin “For fans of Uncanny Valley , this is a clever and introspective debut about an ambivalent tech worker’s search for a meaningful life in a culture obsessed with happiness. This novel is for anyone with mixed feelings about all the data we provide Big Tech, all the search terms we type into Google, looking to answer the same question that haunts Evelyn: ‘Am I alone? Am I the only one?’” —Leigh Stein, author of Self Care “I felt happy for me, reading Happy for You . Claire Stanford tells the story of a young woman’s quest for a meaningful life—for life at all—in this digital world. Whether she can find the joys and sorrows of the body—the physical, sexual body—makes for a compelling and insightful read.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior   “Turn off your phone, shut down your computer, and immerse yourself in Happy for You. In this very smart and timely novel, Claire Stanford poses questions about how we define and understand ourselves—as opposed to how we allow social media and technology to define and portray us. A thought-provoking, comic, and marvelously unsettling debut.” —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement “A novel of fine intelligence, Happy for You is a witty send-up of our algorithm culture that builds to an unexpected and quite beautiful depth of feeling. A terrific debut.” —Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective

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Happy for You by Claire Stanford Publication Date: 19 April 2022

⭐ A Jennesaisreads Starred Review ⭐

Deeply introspective and insightful, Claire Stanford’s debut novel, Happy for You, forces us to take a good, hard look at the concept of happiness and how, or even if, it can be measured. Half Jewish and half Japanese, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto is fully immersed in a quarter-life crisis as she wrestles with her identity as a bi-racial woman and struggles to decide what she really wants for her future. Her philosophy dissertation sits unfinished, a marriage proposal from her boyfriend seems imminent and inevitable, and her study of emotions seems to have done nothing to help her understand her own. A job offer from the third-most-popular internet company lures her away from her life in academia with an interesting premise: what if we could measure happiness? What if we could truly understand it and then quantify it, package it in an app, and help people achieve more of it?

For me, Happy for You is a small slice of literary perfection. The majority of the books I read are light-hearted romances, and this book was a nice palate cleanser in between all of that fluffy, cotton candy sweetness. The story is beautifully philosophical and forces the reader to truly consider the nature of happiness. It demands that we evaluate how our views of happiness have been skewed by the ways in which we feed the digital monster, and how it catalogs us and then spits back images of how we should be feeling, acting, and the kind of life we should want.

I have e a couple of suggestions for you. First, read this book. It is beautiful and witty and thought-provoking. Secondly, before you dive into this story, please do not read anything more than the blurb. The “unexpected development” referenced therein is, for me, the heart and soul of this novel, and going into it blind, as I did, will bring your overall enjoyment of it to the next level.

Congratulations to Claire Stanford on her stunning debut, and I look forward to reading much more from this author. And thank you to Viking Books for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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by Celia Laskey ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2022

An exploration of a friendship brought to the brink.

Society’s obsession with unwed women leads to destruction.

From the first line of Laskey’s novel, readers may wonder if they’re dealing with hyperbole or horror: “If you want to know the story of how my best friend and I ended up trying to kill each other, I should probably start with the night she asked me to be her maid of honor.” Robin Hawkins, a queer Brooklyn woman in her early 30s, is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on society’s pervasive focus on marriage. It's a time when only 21% of people get married and 76% of marriages end in divorce, meaning “fewer people were buying houses and having kids, which meant suburbs became ghost towns and cities became wildly over-crowded...even though Americans were happier than ever….Happiness was not good for capitalism or the patriarchy or white supremacy.” Urged by her adviser to make her dissertation sexier by adding real-life case studies, Robin hesitantly agrees to be the maid of honor at her best friend Ellie’s wedding. From there, a series of increasingly sinister events unfolds, spurred on by Ellie’s desperation to bring good luck to her wedding and Robin’s growing unrest. The bridezilla trope is pretty well played out by now, and Laskey winks a little too much at The Handmaid’s Tale . Nevertheless, Laskey successfully creates an eerie tone for the novel and a discomforting closeness between Ellie and Robin, two women who share a deep bond forged in adolescence. Ultimately, the novel settles into the sweet spot of dystopia: just unrealistic enough to feel fantastical but grounded in sufficient reality for the reader to pose the question, could this really happen ?

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ISBN: 978-1-335-42690-1

Page Count: 352

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HAPPY , by Celina Baljeet Basra

A friend recently told me he’d read an article in this paper describing the money to be made supplying migrants in their journey from South America to the United States. “Made me realize I don’t have any real understanding of the immigration situation,” my friend said.

Ain’t it the truth?

Despite a surfeit of stories and countless words from politicians, policymakers, reporters and migrants themselves, the complexities of immigration throughout the world remain confounding. It seems none of us has a real understanding of the subject, which is too big and variable to fully grasp. Yet we must try.

Leaping, chattering, dancing atop this conundrum comes the hero of Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy Singh Soni, his head bursting with ideas, his heart set on gargantuan dreams. He is the youngest son in a family of Punjabi cabbage farmers. At the time of the Partition, his parents left their home in what is now Pakistan and settled in a village near Jalandhar, India. Happy was born later, in 1991, and grew up on the family farm, proclaiming himself “the Prince of Cabbage Land.” He christens the farm’s center “Soni Square” because “naming things could make them mine.”

But ownership doesn’t last. Progress arrives with ironic consequences. An amusement park called Wonderland buys up the local land and replaces family farms with surreal attractions.

Happy dreams of movie stardom. He begins working a low-paying Wonderland job and sets his sights on emigrating to Europe. His hopes exceed his prospects though not his irresistible faith in himself.

The setup is familiar, but Basra makes it new by bombarding us with short takes from Happy’s changing reality and his hyperactive imagination, delivered in a variety of formats including: a “Welcome to Wonderland” brochure; Happy’s C.V.; brief bios of his neighbors; passages told from the perspective of a tree; a puff of cotton candy and an ancient necklace; and an imagined journalism series called “The Loo Interviews.” Soon he’s talking to another figment, a voice that is “Europe,” which extends an official offer to migrate using telemarketing techniques: “Have you had the chance to think about your invitation to Europe, Happy?” it asks. “You won’t regret it. Have you signed the agreement yet?”

It’s an entertaining assortment and also a perplexing one. What’s the point of navigating this jumble? Why ask us to go on this Wonderland bumper car ride? The reader’s impatience begins to take hold, and then we realize: Basra is making a magnificent attempt to help us understand the mixture of optimism, self-defense, hope and delusion that Happy needs to make the monumental choice of whether or not to leave his home, move to a faraway place and face all the deceptions and misery that might await. By fragmenting the picture, and by playing with voice and structure, Basra invites us to experience Happy’s emotional journey at its most unfiltered, intimate level. She’s thrown away conventional narrative, and the outlandish chaos she creates conveys both the exuberant folly and dream-fueled logic that lead Happy to act.

He journeys to Italy, joining an invisible work force in grueling restaurant and agriculture jobs. The once “Prince of Cabbage Land” is reduced to laboring at an enormous radish farm. Mysterious, unnamed forces move him from job to job, and we see how greed and industrialized agriculture control Happy’s fortunes. The novel continues on in short segments, introducing fellow migrants, detailing living conditions and glancing back at Happy’s family and home in India, which highlight what he lost in leaving.

Basra’s too smart to think she can explain to us “the immigration situation” in one novel. But she does want us to feel Happy’s plight, and to share her anger at the dehumanizing methods by which our capitalist systems exploit migrant labor. To a profit-driven boss, one worker is the same as another, and is easily replaced by the next one who dares to come. But Happy’s indelible voice won’t let us take that attitude, or let Happy be forgotten.

“Wave if you see us on the road, or far out at sea,” Happy tells us. “Wave, stranger, as a greeting might help us to remember who we are.”

Kathryn Ma’s most recent book is the novel “The Chinese Groove.”

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Donald Trump is preying — er, praying — his followers will pick up a Bible he’s hawking.

On Tuesday, the former president posted a video on his Truth Social platform that was basically a three-minute commercial for the God Bless the USA Bible .

For those not in the know, the GBTUB is a version of the holy book that combines the text of the King James Bible with some wholly unexpected additions.

For instance, this $60 version of the good book adds the text of the Pledge of Allegiance, the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

But wait, there’s more! The GBTUB also has a page featuring the chorus of Lee Greenwood’s patriotic standard, “God Bless the USA,” in the singer’s handwriting.

Trump really pushed the Bible in a three-minute video that Mediaite described as “utterly bonkers.”

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“And this is very important and very important to me. I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul. Many of you have never read them and don’t know the liberties and rights you have as Americans, and how you are being threatened to lose those rights; it’s happening all the time. “It’s a very sad thing that’s going on in our country, but we’re going to get it turned around. Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country, and I truly believe that we need to bring them back here and we have to bring them back fast. I think it’s one of the biggest problems we have.”

In the video, Trump suggests he’s more religious than he actually is and suggests he’s quite familiar with the Bible, despite evidence that he’s not.

“ All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many, it’s my favorite book, it’s a lot of people’s favorite book. This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make America great again is our religion. “Religion is so important, it’s so missing. But it’s going to come back and it’s going to come back strong, just like our country is going to come back strong.”

The FAQ page on the website notes that it is the only Bible endorsed by Donald Trump but that the company “is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign.”

The website also notes that the product is “not political” or part of any campaign, but it does include information on the company’s licensing deal with Trump, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, that suggests the deal benefits him personally.

HuffPost reached out to Greenwood to see if he was a partner in the product or just licensed his name and song as well. No one immediately responded.

However, the singer did post Trump’s video endorsement on X.

President Donald J. Trump ENDORSES AND PROMOTES “GOD BLESS THE USA BIBLE” TO MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN TO KICK OFF HOLY WEEK LEADING INTO EASTER Purchase Here: https://t.co/F9cA0pbKWj @realDonaldTrump @GBTUSAStore pic.twitter.com/UA1TyRqf25 — Lee Greenwood (@TheLeeGreenwood) March 26, 2024

The reaction among users of X, formerly Twitter, can be summed up in three short sentences: Oh. My. God.

"Yes, this is the only Bible endorsed by President Trump" The grifting has reached biblical proportions. https://t.co/gdLjJqYIJk — Sunny (@sunnyright) March 26, 2024

Lying, adultering, porn-star loving fraudster laments we’ve lost our religion. So buy his bibles. “This is the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!” https://t.co/Gl3sxvoQEk — S.E. Cupp (@secupp) March 26, 2024

One day after he compared himself to Jesus Christ, Trump is now selling a $60 “Trump endorsed” Bible. Grifter gonna grift. 🤮 pic.twitter.com/rNGlR49mWG — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 26, 2024

oh https://t.co/d09FcGaZ1D pic.twitter.com/WKNVqD8yws — Brian Martinez (@BrianMartinezWI) March 26, 2024

The presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency is doing a paid endorsement for a Bible on Holy Week pic.twitter.com/wiC7GHpREd — Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 26, 2024

A Trump-endorsed Bible grift is such a funny bit that I am mad I didn't think of it before. https://t.co/n1IGC2qsKz — Max Steele (@maxasteele) March 26, 2024

Look, if you want some cheap knockoff WOKE version of the Bible/Constitution/Pledge of Allegiance, sure, you buy from someone else. BUT if you want the REAL DEAL you pay $70 and buy it from a guy who also sells shoes and cryptocurrency. https://t.co/I4bytddZ7Z — Concerned Parent in North Texas (@ZachRunsThings) March 26, 2024

“So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf- which can be yours for the low, low price of five easy installments of $19.99” https://t.co/t68a6p7qZE — Russell Moore (@drmoore) March 26, 2024

One person posted a video reminding people of the depth ― or lack thereof ― of Trump’s biblical knowledge.

Trump posted a video holding a Bible talking about the importance of Christianity. Same guy who had multiple affairs, raw-dogged a pornstar while his wife was at home with their newborn & accused of sexually assaulting 26 women. Yet, BS Elliott couldn’t name a single Bible verse. pic.twitter.com/4yvkfvbx5k — cαηα∂α нαтεs тя☭мρ (@Trump_Detester) March 26, 2024

One person was sure it wouldn’t end well.

Well, I guess now that Trump is selling a bible, we can soon expect Christianity to go bankrupt. https://t.co/VfwStZgfxz — Jay Black (@jayblackisfunny) March 26, 2024

But one person also noted that the Trump-endorsed Bible seemed more about worshipping him than Jesus Christ.

There's not a Cross nor a picture of Jesus on the page, but plenty of photos of Trump. Who do you think this $60 bible is for? It sure isn't for Jesus. https://t.co/9Q9v8Gk2qf — Gregory Minchak (@gminchak) March 26, 2024

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