One of her six favorite books that examine the idea of happiness, as told to The Week magazine:
Little Children by Tom PerrottaRead about the other books on the list.
Perrotta's comic novel about suburban parents caught in a set of loveless, passionless marriages points to an inescapable fact about romantic expectations: Marriage isn't what it's cracked up to be. Fortunately, there is a path forward.
Sarah from Little Children is one of the ten worst mothers in fiction.
Sonja Lyubomirsky's The How of Happiness is one of Oliver Burkeman's ten best self-help gurus.
--Marshal Zeringue