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This Is Happiness
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You don’t see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you’ve been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed.
The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten parish of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is just a condition of living. It’s always there, straight-down and sideways, frontwards, backwards and any other wards God could think of. But now – just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity – it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling outside his grandparents’ house in the first instance of the rain’s absence when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha. Though he can’t explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.
This is the story of all that was to follow; of the threshold that was crossed, leaving behind life as it had always been. And as the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age, his fallings in and out of love, Christy’s past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world and making it new.
An intricate and tenderly observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and inanities, its failures and triumphs, This is Happiness is a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by deep-running roots into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.
The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten parish of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is just a condition of living. It’s always there, straight-down and sideways, frontwards, backwards and any other wards God could think of. But now – just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity – it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling outside his grandparents’ house in the first instance of the rain’s absence when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha. Though he can’t explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.
This is the story of all that was to follow; of the threshold that was crossed, leaving behind life as it had always been. And as the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age, his fallings in and out of love, Christy’s past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world and making it new.
An intricate and tenderly observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and inanities, its failures and triumphs, This is Happiness is a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by deep-running roots into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.
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