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PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020
©2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION
276 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593086520, 059308652X :, 059308652X, 9780593086520
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This dark-comedic novel is about a woman, Janet, who wears a cloak of gloomy realism, until one summer when she learns of a new pill that offers even confirmed cynics a short-term taste of happiness. Her family stages an intervention, her boyfriend leaves her, and she decides to take the pill to get through the Christmas holiday. What follows is life-changing for all concerned, in ways no one expected"--