Description
Book SynopsisPresents a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, US-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.
Trade Review"The 11 linked stories in Gautier's debut collection . . . vividly evoke Puerto Rico's intoxicating, comforting atmosphere—that unbreakable tether binding struggling people in crowded Northeastern U.S. cities to their tropical homeland. . . . Gautier captures the unique experience, and predicament, of Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S."
—Publishers Weekly"Gautier's linked stories deftly capture her characters' internal struggles for identity and home."—Leah Strauss,
Booklist"With a style that feels like a mixture of Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danicat, Gautier is a writer more people should be talking about."—Coleen Muir,
Rumpus"Told with respect, grit, and truth,
Now We Will Be Happy is a powerful collection about family, identity, and the sacrifices we make in our pursuits of happiness."—Laura Farmer,
Cedar Rapids Gazette"Timely as well as beautifully rendered, Gautier's collection breathes life into America's racial and immigrant conflicts, going well below the skin-deep surface of her characters or expose the passions and hopes that unite diverse people."—Sian Griffiths,
Georgia Review"Gautier's persistent thematic explorations into the meaning of family and identity make
Now We Will Be Happy cohere and resonate in ways that you’ll remember long after the final page."
—Leland Cheuk,
Kenyon ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Aguanile
Now We Will Be Happy
Bodega
Muñeca
How to Make Flan
Only Son
A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns
The Luckiest Man in the World
Remembering
The Last Hurricane
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