{"product_id":"small-joys","title":"Small Joys","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCould I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England, where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness futile, Harley is on the verge of making a devastating final decision. Fortunately for him, things don't go according to plan, and his attempt on his own life is interrupted by his new roommate, Muddy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuddy is everything Harley is not: ostensibly heterosexual, freewheeling, confident in his masculinity. Despite their differences, a deep friendship blossoms between them when Muddy takes Harley under his wing and shows him everything that, in his eyes, makes life worth living: bird-watching, karaoke, rugby, and the band Oasis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut this newfound friendship is complicated. It has enormous repercussions for the pair's romantically entangled friend group--for Chelsea, an overbearing striver whose generosity they begrudgingly rely on; for Finlay, her raffish and uncouth boyfriend; and for Noria, who despite her simmering confidence is smarting from a series of unreturned affections. And then there's the violent affair with an older man that Harley finds himself slipping back into . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs secrets and jealousies endanger all that Harley has come to depend on, he finds himself faltering once again, even though he finally has something--and someone--to live for. Soul-stirring and witty, full of hope and peopled with characters who feel like close friends, \u003ci\u003eSmall Joys \u003c\/i\u003eexplores a young man's turbulent journey toward happiness and announces the arrival of an exciting voice in fiction.","brand":"Elvin James Mensah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43796934885603,"sku":"9780593499962","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780593499962-us.jpg?v=1680884238","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/small-joys","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}