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To offer us complex emotional experience and riveting narrative momentum, and then to leave the reader in contemplation of its sophisticated themes and subtle weave of objective correlatives. that is the stuff of literary greatness, of art that demands to be read in conversation with the canon.Gautier's stories have you by the throat, and they surprise you with their mercy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49873450664209,"sku":"GOR009833848","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50038872604945,"sku":"CIN1932418563VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50520889065745,"sku":"CIN1932418563G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51418097713425,"sku":"CIN1932418563A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1932418563.jpg?v=1750727139"},{"product_id":"now-we-will-be-happy-book-amina-gautier-9780803255395","title":"Now We Will Be Happy","description":"Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.  The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles.   Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50005926215953,"sku":"CIN080325539XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361406128401,"sku":"CIN080325539XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007483773201,"sku":"NIN9780803255395","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080325539X.jpg?v=1765619862"},{"product_id":"best-that-you-can-do-book-amina-gautier-9781593767587","title":"The Best That You Can Do","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the International Latino Book Award * Midwest MLA Book Award * Florida Book Awards Silver Medal Winner * IPPY Book Award Silver Medal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the cultural confusion of being one person in two places--of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place readers at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Refusing to shy away from dysfunction, loss, obligation, or interrogating Black and Latinx heritages \"If we flip the channels fast enough, we can turn almost anyone Puerto Rican, blurring black and white into Boricua.\" Gautier's stories feature New York neighborhoods made of island nations living with seasonal and perpetual displacement. 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In Pan Is Dead, two half-siblings watch as the heroin-addicted father of the older one works his way back into their mother's life; in Dance for Me, a girl on scholarship at a posh Manhattan school teaches white girls to dance in the bathroom in order to be invited to a party. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs teenagers in complicated circumstances, each of Gautier's characters is pushed in many directions. To succeed may entail unforgiveable compro­mises, and to follow their desires may lead to catastrophe. 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