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I Want You to Be Happy

I Want You to Be Happy

Calder, Jem

Hardcover

RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0374620555
ISBN13: 9780374620554
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker

A tender, witty, and sharp debut novel about the passions and peculiarities of modern love, by an extraordinarily gifted writer (Sally Rooney).

Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He long ago abandoned his ambition of being a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. Lead copywriter, he corrects himself. Joey is living paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat--a world away from Joey's cramped house-share and the crumbs in her bed. All too soon, Joey is imagining a future between them, while Chuck struggles to move on from a mistake in his recent past. It's amazing how meeting a new person can make you feel so new.

Vibrant, funny, and excruciatingly true, I Want You to Be Happy is a sharp-eyed tale of two people searching for meaning and connection in modern times--missing the mark, maybe, but still trying.

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