If You're Happy
Author(s): Fiona Robertson
From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.
The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy.
A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard, a lonely man finds an abandoned toddler, a second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion, a young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson’s stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.
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Fiona Robertson’s collection of short stories ‘If You’re Happy’ is intensely absorbing. Little wonder it won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the Queensland Literary Awards in 2020. In the hands of a gifted writer, the short story form can say a lot. Without cliché or sentimentality, each story shows insightful compassion for the human condition across so many contexts. And surprises too. After I’d read a couple of the stories, I approached the next one with a sense of curiosity. I wasn’t disappointed.
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.366
- : December 2021
- : 2 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 22.6 Centimeters
- : February 2022
- : books
Special Fields
- : Fiona Robertson
- : Paperback
- : 2202
- : 232
- : FYB
