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Happiness

A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide: Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech but also trying to locate a missing friend caught up in an immigration s...

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Main Author: Forna, Aminatta (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2018]
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Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Self-realization > Fiction.
Happiness > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Juvenile fiction.
Happiness > Juvenile fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide: Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech but also trying to locate a missing friend caught up in an immigration sweep. From this chance encounter the two work together to find Ama, and a deepening friendship unfolds.
Physical Description:312 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780802127556
080212755X
Author Notes:Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones , The Memory of Love , and The Hired Man , as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water . Forna's books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta , The Guardian , The Observer , and Vogue . She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.

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