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Like Happiness

Like Happiness

By Ursula Villarreal-Moura

$28.00

A Best Book of 2024: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE, and Them
Shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize, An Indie Next Pick
Finalist for The Rudolfo Anaya Latino Focused Fiction Book Award

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. More than anything else, she loves this new life for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Domínguez.

When a reporter calls from the US asking for an interview, the careful separation Tatum has constructed between her past and present begins to crumble. Domínguez has been accused of assault, and the reporter is looking for corroboration.

As Tatum is forced to reexamine the all-consuming but undefinable relationship that dominated so much of her early adulthood, long-buried questions surface. What did happen between them? And why is she still struggling with the mark the relationship left on her life?

Told in a dual narrative alternating between her present day and a letter from Tatum to Domínguez, recounting and reclaiming the totality of their relationship, Like Happiness explores the nuances of a complicated and imbalanced relationship, catalyzing a reckoning with gender, celebrity, memory, Latinx identity, and power dynamics.

Book details

Format
Hardcover
Publication date
March 26, 2024
ISBN
9781250882837
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pages
304
Language
English
BISAC
Fiction, Literary, Hispanic & Latino, General, Feminist, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+, Lesbian
Themes
Hispanic & Latino, Latino, Feminine, Coming of Age, Lesbian, LGBTQ+, Hispanic & Latino Interest
Related subjects
Americans, Chile, Violence against women, Self-actualization in women (Psychology), New York (N.Y.), Queer fiction, Lesbian fiction, Bildungsromans, Lesbians, Man-woman relationships, Authors, Women, Abuse of

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