And Yet They Were Happy - Paperback
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And Yet They Were Happy - Paperback
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by Helen Phillips (Author)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD longlist nominee, Helen Phillips's debut novel, And Yet They Were Happy is "A gallery of marvels."--Washington Post
Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction PrizeA young couple comes of age in a surreal world of apocalypse, delight, longing, and tenderness.
A young couple sets out to build a life together in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing--but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, the Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar.
Author Biography
Helen Phillips received a 2009 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, the 2009 Meridian Editors' Prize, and the 2008 Italo Calvino Fabulist Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review and Salt Hill Journal, among others, and in the anthologies American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors and The Hotel St. George Infinitely Expanding Library of New Fabulist Fiction. Helen is a graduate of Yale and Brooklyn College's MFA programs. She teaches creative writing at Brooklyn College.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.7 x 5 IN
Publication Date: January 31, 2023
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