Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize amp8226 A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024amp160amp8226 A CBC Best Fiction Book of the YearShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happinessOn New Years Eve a pair of addicts robs a string of highend parties in order to fund their own recovery A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town where she receives a lifechanging visitation and a Russian hitman suffering from a mysterious lung ailment retrieves longburied memories of his past In the nineteenth century a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary Caroline Addersonamp8217s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happinessand how often it comes through the grace of others
