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    "description": "A complete refreshment and uplift of a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the heart.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s maybe six hundred times a day,\u201d Sylvie says, and then she\nstops and the therapist tilts her head.\n\u201cThat I think about you,\u201d Sylvie goes on, the word you said so\nquietly as to be barely audible.\n\nSylvie is happy only when she is in therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist; she thinks about her every second they\u2019re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). In that room, Sylvie is able to talk about everything. Her true pleasures, which include hitting a pi\u00f1ata so the candy falls out; her thoughts about the false hope promised by eighties music; and what a dog\u2019s inner life is really like. She\u2019s aware she has an obsession, but whether it\u2019s a case of extreme transference, \u201cerotic transference,\u201d or a lost person\u2019s need to connect, Sylvie isn\u2019t sure.\n\nBeyond therapy, Sylvie has what she considers to be a small a job as a veterinary nurse, companionship from her tattooist friend via text, and her little brain-damaged dog, Curtains. One day, on the beach in her seaside town, she meets Chloe, who understands Sylvie completely. Chloe becomes her friend that day and for the rest of her life.\n\nWhen the therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie has to imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don\u2019t include being adopted by the therapist). Her world has begun to open up, inching beyond the pain, confusion, and fear that have confined her, and she must decide whether she\u2019s ready for a bravery of feeling.\n\nWith a lightness of touch, irresistible charm, and a rare, warm wit, Happiness Forever is one woman\u2019s search inside\u2014and for\u2014herself. In this stunning debut, Adelaide Faith encapsulates the great vulnerability, difficulty, and joy of being a person and of being alive.",
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