Happiness

Attila is a psychiatrist from Ghana who has made a career of assessing trauma in war zones. Jean is a divorced wildlife biologist from New England. It almost seems enough that Forna has imagined these two imperfect but wonderfully admirable and interesting people as thoroughly as she has, but when she allows chance to bring them together for a week in London, along with the networks of people, thought, and experience they carry with them, the result is magical—the sort of magic that, like a romance between people who have seen love and loss before, unfolds slowly and deeply. And only as the end of this beautiful book approaches will you understand how appropriate and well-earned its title is.