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“It’s the late 1960s in upstate New York. Eva Breiten, a European immigrant who speaks five languages, wants to be more than a wife and mother. The more her husband travels for his job, the greater his success, the longer winter lasts, the unhappier she is. She sleeps around, has a love affair that ends in betrayal, and becomes the subject of damning small-town gossip. After she loses control and hits her child, she leaves her husband and daughter to start over under the limitless skies of the American Desert.
Plagued by self-doubt, which manifests as deceit, selfishness, and arrogance, Eva is tough to sympathize with until, small act by small act, she becomes more genuine and generous. She begins to question her idea of happiness and where it’s found, and the breadcrumbs in my novel lead her to answers. But she doesn’t find them in the sexual revolution, on acid trips, or at a Buddhist monastery. At Tip’s Lounge in Tucson, Arizona, the wisdom of the bartender and caring camaraderie of the regulars set Eva on a path to redemption—readers who can’t initially forgive her ultimately root for her.
A frank portrait of a woman in a time of cultural change, The Happiness of Others is also a collage of sixties outliers—including Tip, a Whitmanesque barkeep with a unicorn tattoo, a naively romantic transsexual, a black doctor who practices Reiki, a retired PI who uncovers more about Eva’s life than she knows herself, and the husband she left behind, a Holocaust survivor, now an IBM salesman, who never stops loving her.”
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