Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain

by Lucia Perillo

Book Overview

Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo's story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.

An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who sell them door-to-door. An abandoned woman seeks consolation in tales of armed robbery told by one of her fellow suburban housewives. An accidental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393345467
• ISBN13: 9780393345469
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"