Eli comes down to breakfast wearing a knit cap with an orange spice tea bag dangling from it. “It’s so I can sniff it throughout the day.” He holds it to his nose, deeply inhales, then lets it drop. The bag hangs near his ear and gently sways. Eli’s in the fifth grade. “I double-knotted it,” he says beaming.
Everyone and then more everyones will be getting Happily for every holiday from now until there are no more Holidays. I feel like you are rewriting a new Happily in knots Sabrina, like a Happily which has no end, just frayed knots (which reminds me of an old joke and also a rug). Happily is a never-ending series of beautiful knots. Maybe because it's a fairytale or a country tying itself in a knot around us and the mourning and the sales phone calls, a snug and then more snug knot around anyone who has read it and loved it. I hear there is even a version which gets carried back and forth across the United States from the west to the east and back again, knotting highways and byways in big magical knots. (All this to say, publisher shmublisher. everyone I know adores Happily!)
I was an early adopter of Happily and teach it to my most brilliant English students. If there aren’t any more sold, that’ll make those of us who have one all the more cognizant of its power.
Not only did I buy Happily, I pre-ordered it and picked it up from an indie bookstore in Pittsburgh as soon as it came out. Your writing makes me happy to be alive and reading.
Everyone and then more everyones will be getting Happily for every holiday from now until there are no more Holidays. I feel like you are rewriting a new Happily in knots Sabrina, like a Happily which has no end, just frayed knots (which reminds me of an old joke and also a rug). Happily is a never-ending series of beautiful knots. Maybe because it's a fairytale or a country tying itself in a knot around us and the mourning and the sales phone calls, a snug and then more snug knot around anyone who has read it and loved it. I hear there is even a version which gets carried back and forth across the United States from the west to the east and back again, knotting highways and byways in big magical knots. (All this to say, publisher shmublisher. everyone I know adores Happily!)
I adore you more than you’ll ever know.
and I you.
publisher shmublisher, knots and all. magical beings, both of you!
I bought a Happily, happily. The book sits on my nightstand, happily. ❤️
“If only all day we were handed pages from the dead to translate.” Surely their missives would be gnarled and knotty. Love this. ❤️
Sabrina, I love Happily so much that I made a TikTok about it, which is saying something for a 58-year-old woman. ❤️
I was an early adopter of Happily and teach it to my most brilliant English students. If there aren’t any more sold, that’ll make those of us who have one all the more cognizant of its power.
"I root around in my heart for more space to mourn." I feel that...
I only just heard of happily and will be buying it immediately.
Not only did I buy Happily, I pre-ordered it and picked it up from an indie bookstore in Pittsburgh as soon as it came out. Your writing makes me happy to be alive and reading.
Publishers confuse me to no end!! I also happily bought my copy of Happily. 💗
I love Happily. Extraordinary writing. So much tangled that has gotten untangled through your creativity. ❤️💐
Thank you! May the knotting and unknotting continue to guide us.