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Biographies & Memoirs

This Is Happy

This Is Happy

'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or possibility of the opposite can be what gives an experience its meaning. At its simplest, that is a story." â€”Camilla Gibb, This Is Happy

Â Â Â Â Â In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, bestselling author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty.
Â Â Â Â Raw and unflinching, intelligent and humane, This Is Happy asks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday.

Country	USA
Author	Camilla Gibb
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780385678124
Edition	1St Edition
Format	International Edition
ISBN	0385678126
Label	Doubleday Canada
Manufacturer	Doubleday Canada
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2015-08-18
Publisher	Doubleday Canada
ReleaseDate	2015-08-18
Studio	Doubleday Canada

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