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Now We Will Be Happy (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)

by Amina Gautier

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Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier's characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn't seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurrica≠ a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles.  Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.… (more)
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The author's concise writing stands out in this collection of heartfelt stories about family dynamics. Some are heartbreaking, some uplifting, all are real. Some have connections with each other. The book won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. The volume is slim and I'll read these stories again, they are that good.

The book came to me by way of GR giveaways. ( )
  Rascalstar | Jan 21, 2017 |
Whenever I pick up a slim volume of short stories that I this good, I try to read slowly and with a bit of quiet time between each story. However, I found I couldn't put this one down, especially once I realized there was some overlap amongst them. Excellent writing from many points of view! ( )
  viviennestrauss | Mar 28, 2015 |
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Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier's characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn't seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurrica≠ a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles.  Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.

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