Happiness & Love, the bracing and barbed debut novel from Zoe Dubno about the pretentious New York art scene and the wretched people who populate it, is a must-read for audiences ready for a thoughtful examination of the elite/populist divide. If you’re a conservative looking for a beach book that will grab and entertain you but is also several literary notches above the usual “reunion-at-the-cape” summer reads, this is for you.
Dubno lives in New York and has a degree from Oberlin and an MFA from Rutgers. Happiness & Love is her pungent kiss-off to the world that bred her.
The unnamed narrator of the novel is a writer who lives between New York and London. Over the course of a single evening in Brooklyn, she attends a dinner party hosted by two of her old art-world friends, artist Eugene and curator Nicole. It’s the night following the funeral of Rebecca, an actress who killed herself after falling into addiction when her career faltered.
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