More Happy Love

Conjurer of the uncanny Joanna Pearson's mordant, sexy, swerving return to the short story will leave you wanting more.



The stories in More Happy Love speak to the many faces of midlife's quiet revolt. A psychiatrist meets her late husband's harshest critic, torn between insatiable lust and vengeance. A timid mother realizes that to save her daughter she must terrorize her. An audiologist begins discovering precious gemstones in the ears of her patients, a surreal mystery that unravels into something much darker. Across the collection, Pearson's characters grapple with secrets, regrets, and the lingering portraits of who they once were.



"A dangerous delight: every combustible story within creates its own small explosion." -Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Madeleine Is Sleeping and Likes