I Don't Have a Happy Place
eBook - ePub

I Don't Have a Happy Place

Cheerful Stories of Despondency and Gloom

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

I Don't Have a Happy Place

Cheerful Stories of Despondency and Gloom

About this book

When a trip to the therapist ends with the question "Can't Kim be happy?" Kim Korson responds the way any normal person would—she makes fun of it. Because really, does everyone have to be happy? Aside from her father wearing makeup and her mother not feeling well (a lot), Kim Korson's 1970s suburban upbringing was typical. Sometimes she wished her brother were an arsonist just so she'd have a valid excuse to be unhappy. And when life moves along pretty decently--she breaks into show business, gets engaged in the secluded jungles of Mexico, and moves her family from Brooklyn to dreamy rural Vermont—the real despondency sets in. It's a skill to find something wrong in just about every situation, but Kim has an exquisite talent for negativity. It is only after half a lifetime of finding kernels of unhappiness where others find joy that she begins to wonder if she is even capable of experiencing happiness.In I Don't Have a Happy Place, Kim Korson untangles what it means to be a true malcontent. Rife with evocative and nostalgic observations, unapologetic realism, and razor-sharp wit, I Don't Have a Happy Place is told in humorous, autobiographical stories. This fresh-yet-dark voice is sure to make you laugh, nod your head in recognition, and ultimately understand what it truly means to be unhappy. Always.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Paulette
  6. Latchkey
  7. Eight Weeks
  8. A Lot of Living to Do
  9. Letters to a Low-level Depressive
  10. There’s No Business
  11. This Is Our Story?
  12. A Very Special Episode
  13. Lemons & Limes
  14. Be Careful Out There
  15. Sorry, Nana
  16. In No Particular Order
  17. Good Grief
  18. I Don’t Have a Happy Place
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. About the Author
  21. Copyright