Happiness, Like Water

Chinelo Okparanta

Original title: Happiness, like water

earliest edition we have, 2013 Granta, 2013 196 pages

Short stories. Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties. Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush l...

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Editions we hold

Happiness, Like Water edition · 2014 · Granta Books · 208 pages · 9781847088314
Happiness, Like Water edition · 2013 · Portobello Books · 9781846274855
Happiness, Like Water edition · 2013 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299902466
Happiness, Like Water edition · 2013 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 210 pages · 9780544003378
Happiness, like water edition · 2013 · Mariner Books · 196 pages · 9780544003453
Happiness, like water edition · 2013 · Granta · 196 pages · 9781847088307

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