{"product_id":"and-yet-they-were-happy-paperback","title":"And Yet They Were Happy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD longlist nominee, Helen Phillips's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eAnd Yet They Were Happy\u003c\/i\u003e is \"A gallery of marvels.\"--Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young couple comes of age in a surreal world of apocalypse, delight, longing, and tenderness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young couple sets out to build a life together in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing--but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, the Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Phillips \u003c\/b\u003ereceived a 2009 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, the 2009 Meridian Editors' Prize, and the 2008 Italo Calvino Fabulist Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalt Hill Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e among others, and in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hotel St. George Infinitely Expanding Library of New Fabulist Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e Helen is a graduate of Yale and Brooklyn College's MFA programs. She teaches creative writing at Brooklyn College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766224781600,"sku":"9781948585576","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c19fa6a9aa4b4b4e3359d6cbea57755e.webp?v=1780287678","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/and-yet-they-were-happy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}