{"id":38652,"date":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/are-you-happy-by-lori-ostlund\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","slug":"are-you-happy-by-lori-ostlund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/are-you-happy-by-lori-ostlund\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Are You Happy?<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stories and a Novella<\/em><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Lori Ostlund<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30233\" src=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n<p>&#8216;Once I read the first story in Are You Happy?, I put aside everything else to savor the rest. This is a wise collection, capturing its characters swimming upstream to encounter their fates. With vivid and compassionate prose that explores the countless ways we betray and then rediscover ourselves, Lori Ostlund reminds us of the vitality of the genre.&#8217;\u2014Jai Chakrabarti, author of A Play for the End of the World and A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness<\/p>\n<p>Nine exquisite stories that explore class, desire, identity, and the specter of violence that looms daily over women and the LGBTQ+ community.An aspiring veterinarian survives a plane crash and starts life over in California. A woman mourns the loss of her childhood friend\u2019s innocence and rethinks justice. A queer teacher&#8217;s sense of safety in the classroom is destroyed. With settings ranging from small-town Minnesota to New Mexico, from bars and bedrooms to a furniture store and a community college, Are You Happy? casts a spotlight on people who try\u2014and often fail\u2014to make peace with their pasts while navigating their present relationships and notions of self. In prose that is evocative and restrained, unpredictable and masterful, Lori Ostlund offers a darkly humorous and compassionate examination of America\u2019s preoccupation with loneliness, happiness, guns, and violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/search?tag=lesbianfun-20&#038;index=books&#038;field-title=Are%20You%20Happy%3F&#038;field-author=Lori%20Ostlund\">Buy on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?tbm=bks&#038;q=Are%20You%20Happy%3F%20Lori%20Ostlund\" target=\"_blank\">Find on Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=Are%20You%20Happy%3F%20Lori%20Ostlund\" target=\"_blank\">Review on Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n .TFtable<br \/> .TFtable td<br \/> \/*  Define the text for all the 2nd columns  *\/<br \/> .TFtable td:nth-child(2)<br \/><\/style>\n<table class=\"TFtable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>ISBN: <\/b>9781662603020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Genre: <\/b>Short Story Collection (Single Author)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Subject: <\/b>Genre Fiction; LGBTQ+ Books; Literature &#038; Fiction; Short Stories; Short Stories &#038; Anthologies; United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Publication Date: <\/b>2025-05-06<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Publisher: <\/b>Astra House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Language: <\/b>English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Format: <\/b>Hardcover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Rating:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Notes: <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Book_ID: <\/b>259036<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Happy? | Lori Ostlund | &#8216;Once I read the first story in Are You Happy?, I put aside everything else to savor the rest. 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