Claire Stanford is Happy For You
Jun 30, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
What if an app could quantify exactly how happy you are? That's the premise for Clare Stanford's debut novel, "Happy For You," in which a philosopher leaves academia to work as a researcher for"the third-most popular internet company" where she struggles to find belonging as a biracial woman. "Happy For You,' is a funny story of a woman searching for her identity and a satirical commentary on today's h(app)iness-obsessed world. Plus, a conversation with Mitchell Kaplan at Books and Books.
Other books mentioned in the pod:
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Bernstein Bears Series by Stan and Jan Bernstein
Year of Dangerous Days: Riots Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980 by Nicholas Griffin
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Trust by Hernan Diaz
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