Secrets to Happiness: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316013581 (0316013587)
ASIN: 0316013587
Publish date: 2009-03-25
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Contemporary,
New York,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Relationships,
Fiction
Why: NYT book review said "For a novel about a writer, Secrets of Happiness is refreshingly straightforward about the profession" and "...what makes Dunn's novel such a pleasure to read is the very thing that keeps it from being a breathless page-turner: Holly's singular spirituality."
So, I inhaled this book--like, seriously. I know I usually inhale books anyway, but Secrets to Happiness took me on a journey and didn't let go until I turned the last page. Holly is thirty-something, dumped, and depressed. She's "dating" a twenty-something, and can't quite bring herself to confess ...