I Want You to Be Happy Nguyen sets the agenda for

Nguyen sets the agenda for a more radical and disquieting solidarity with those whose lives have been devastated by imperialism and forever wars

where Machiavelli's necessities are replaced by faded subjectivity

Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and well-loved novels

"--The New York Times (Editors' Choice)

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I Want You to Be Happy Nguyen sets the agenda forA 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 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