Like Happiness

I made up my mind to meet you. Your book had cast a spell on me the previous night. What better way to stay spellbound than to orbit the magician? Razor-sharp and delectably witty, Like Happiness is a headfirst dive into a young woman's destructive obsession with a legendary writer for readers of Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan and Madeleine Grey's Green Dot. 'Deeply felt and achingly intimate' ANNIE LORD 'An epic unravelling of every love story, reclaimed as something sharp, seething, unsettling, and true' T KIRA MADDEN 'Accomplishes a profound emotional electrocution that will leave you floating lighter for days' XOCHITL GONZALEZ __________ NetGalley reviewers love Like Happiness: 'Beautifully written and unputdownable... I would read this over and over again' 'I simply love this book' 'My jaw was on the floor... I'd recommend it for fans of My Dark Vanessa'

Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner. A graduate of Middlebury College, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was a VONA/Voices fellow. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Tin House, Catapult, Prairie Schooner, Midnight Breakfast, Washington Square Story, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, and Gulf Coast. She contributed to Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, a flash anthology by writers of color, and in 2012, she won the CutBank Big Fish Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Contest. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, a Pushcart Prize, and longlisted for Best American Short Stories 2015.