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The Book Case

Claire Stanford is Happy For You

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What if an app could quantify exactly how happy you are? That's the premise for Clare Stanford's debut novel, "Happy For You," in which a philosopher leaves academia to work as a researcher for"the third-most popular internet company" where she struggles to find belonging as a biracial woman. "Happy For You,' is a funny story of a woman searching for her identity and a satirical commentary on today's h(app)iness-obsessed world. Plus, a conversation with Mitchell Kaplan at Books and Books. Other books mentioned in the pod: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño The Bernstein Bears Series by Stan and Jan Bernstein Year of Dangerous Days: Riots Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980 by Nicholas Griffin Big Trouble by Dave Barry Trust by Hernan Diaz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9

Welcome to the bookcase.

0:34.7

I'm Kate Gibson.

0:36.1

And I'm Charlie Gibson, Kate's father.

0:39.4

Proud father.

0:40.9

Well, glad to hear that. This week, anyway.

0:44.4

This week we're going to be talking to Claire Stanford.

0:48.1

She's a new writer who's written a book called Happy for You.

0:54.0

I'm going to leave it to my better, as my father, the one who's written a book called Happy for You. I'm going to leave it to my better as my father, the one who's occasionally proud of me,

0:59.0

to sort of summarize the plot just a little bit before we talk about why we chose it and why it's such a great book.

1:05.6

Well, I think it's an interesting premise, and it's a premise which is very timely with the explosion of apps and the

1:13.1

internet and how people depend on it so for so many things. But she starts, well, she works

1:20.8

for the third most popular internet company. She says that in the first sentence. And right

1:26.8

away, you know, this book is going to be

1:28.8

a little bit off, that she's got a nice sense of humor, but as you read on, you realize

1:34.5

not only does she have a nice sense of humor, but she has a very interesting premise. And that is

1:39.0

that the third most popular internet company is trying to develop an app that will tell you whether

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