Happiness and Love

Happiness and LoveOne of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stand for everything she detests Happiness and Love is a piercing debut novel about brazen materialism, self obsession, and the empty careerism of so called cultural elites. Years after escaping New York

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers

A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves in the area

her fame-chasing ex

let alone taken seriously

only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come

A secular mystic

exposed the dangers and delights of looking—and knowing—too much in his 1954 masterpiece Rear Window

reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race

and try to remember to chase the moon

and perhaps reunite her splintered family

And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life

the friend who betrays him