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Author Havrilesky, Heather, author.

Title What if this were enough? : essays / Heather Havrilesky.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1911532~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  152.42 HAV    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Contents The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.
Summary "Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Havrilesky, Heather.
Happiness.
Conduct of life.
Women -- Biography.
Genre Essays.
ISBN 9780385542883 (hardcover)
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