{"product_id":"i-was-happy-9781968043551","title":"I Was Happy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA college dropout with a talent for terrible decisions falls obsessively in love with a spiritual influencer, only to find the line between devotion, desire, and delusion growing dangerously thin, in this tender and funny literary debut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf Holden Caulfield changed adult diapers for a living and dreamed of touching the face of God, he might look something like Lovage, a caretaker at a group home in Toronto. Like many young men on the brink, Lovage is primed for the holy and the obsessive. Enter Octavia, a spiritual influencer in cowboy boots with gorgeous breasts, who draws him into her cultish orbit, one podcast at a time. Soon enough, Lovage and Octavia are exchanging horny emails about God, and Lovage dares to dream of a shimmering, sublime life, free of diapers and fungal toenail cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter months of correspondence, they meet up at Soul Summit 2.0, where Lovage’s high-minded notions of transcendence are tempered by clout-chasing and bad sex. Idolatry is a sin, perhaps because it’s always disappointing—and when Lovage and Octavia fall from their heavenly pedestal, he has nowhere left to hide, and no one to hide himself from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHilarious, poignant, and delightfully profane, \u003ci\u003eI Was Happy\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning literary debut about our innermost human longings for love, God, and transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alec Gewirtz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219083600123,"sku":"9781968043551","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/i-was-happy-9781968043551","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}