The Great Happiness : Miniatures

A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom. Some of the book's miniatures are narratives with a twist, others are imaginative flights, such as the recently dead experimental novelist "sitting in" on the obituary-writing session convened by her husband, or the woman who rescues an Atlantic lobster from her local Save-On-Foods and ships it to Prince Edward Island to be released back into the ocean. The miniatures of The Great Happiness are "fictions that think," each one a combination of narrative, prose poem, and jest. The Great Happiness is the third part in M.A.C. Farrant's trilogy of miniature fiction published by Talonbooks, preceded by The World Afloat , winner of the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and The Days , nominated for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the ReLit Award.