Description
In the heart of London, a slow-burn romance between Attila and Jean unfolds alongside a web of lives shaped by injustice, memory, and longing. As a young Ghanaian woman is wrongfully detained and her missing son becomes the center of a desperate search, the story widens to include the fragile decline of a former colleague and lover living with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Aminatta Forna braids these seemingly separate threads into a complex, fragmented portrait of what happiness can mean—and what it costs—when cruelty and kindness coexist in the same streets. With her signature blend of emotional clarity and moral inquiry, Forna explores themes of love and loss, prejudice and accountability, and the interconnectedness of human lives, asking whether happiness is something we find, build, or are denied.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove Press
Published Jan 22, 2019
320 pages
ISBN: 9780802129185
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Happiness by Aminatta Forna.