With an elegant blend of humor and pathos, Mary-Beth Hughes captures the turning points in relationships that make us wonder how well we really know those we love. Double Happiness is a revealing meditation on the fragility of contentment and the lengths we must go to in order to sustain it, and "[an] intensely moving collection" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). · Mary-Beth Hughes’s “Double Happiness” is a collection of stories that take place in that hover zone. “I was the kind of year-old who had only recently left adolescence www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Double Happiness. A seductive, deeply human, and sophisticated story collection about the universal need to be loved and the complicated imperfections that jeopardize the ties that bind us. The stories in Double Happiness are extraordinary portrayals of the ordinariness of life. By pinpointing those moments of discord when personal needs and morality clash with circumstances beyond our control, Hughes .
Order a signed copy of The Ocean House: Stories by Mary-Beth Hughes! Photo Credit: Marion Ettlinger. A stunning story cycle from bestselling New York Times notable author, Mary-Beth Hughes, The Ocean House explores the fractured lives of families from a beach town on the Jersey Shore as the consequences of loss pass through generations. Double Happiness: Stories Mary-Beth Hughes, Author Grove/Black Cat 15 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. WAVEMAKER II; The Loved Ones. Mary Beth Hughes (Wavemaker II, Double Happiness, The Loved Ones) talks about her new story collection, THE OCEAN HOUSE with author Debra Jo Immergut (You Again, The Captives).Including stories from an array of characters, The Ocean House weaves an exquisite world of complicated family tales on the Jersey Shore. In ever-tender and elegant prose, Mary-Beth Hughes masterfully explores the.
Double Happiness A woman attempts to find her own closure following losses on 9/ "The Rumson police, the Little Silver police, the Middletown police especially insisted, they’d already had funerals of their own and knew what to expect. With an elegant blend of humor and pathos, Mary-Beth Hughes captures the turning points in relationships that make us wonder how well we really know those we love. Double Happiness is a revealing meditation on the fragility of contentment and the lengths we must go to in order to sustain it, and “[an] intensely moving collection” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The stories in Double Happiness are extraordinary portrayals of the ordinariness of life. By pinpointing those moments of discord when personal needs and morality Best-selling author Mary-Beth Hughes delivers a seductive, deeply human, and sophisticated collection about the universal need to be loved, and the complicated imperfections that jeopardize the ties that bind us.
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