{"product_id":"happiness-like-water-stories","title":"Chinelo Okparanta: Happiness, Like Water [2013] paperback","description":"In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refuge from an abusive husband; an embittered spinster recalling the loss of a dear childhood friend; and a young woman waiting to join her lover abroad.  High expectations - whether of success in Nigeria, or the dream of opportunity and accomplishment in America - consume them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn language that is both raw and elegant, Okparanta's stories are often told from the point of a view of a child - a little girl, an adult daughter. Her closely observed characters populate stories that offer a clear-eyed view of an often traumatic family life, questioning the purpose of their time on earth, and whether there is a hereafter, or a different kind of afterlife altogether, outside of Port Harcourt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHappiness, Like Water heralds the arrival of a fearless and sensitive literary voice.","brand":"Okparanta, Chinelo","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46507334795603,"sku":"9781847088307","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/okparanta-chinelo-chinelo-okparanta-happiness-like-water-2013-paperback-9781847088307-1160579602.jpg?v=1746220172","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/happiness-like-water-stories","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}