This Is Happy

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In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, bestselling author ofSweetness in the BellyandThe Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty.

Raw and unflinching, intelligent and humane,This Is Happyasks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday. (From Anchor Canada)

Author interviews

The Next Chapter3:37Camilla Gibb on This Is Happy

Novelist Camilla Gibb talks about her memoir.