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Happiness, Like Water Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mostly, I have been busy writing my thesis for my 4th year of Uni, and that has taken up a lot of my time unfortunately! I deeply apologise for not attending to my blog lately. But what's often overlooked is the mental aspect, which is just as important. Her short story collection, Happiness, Like Water (Mariner), is a triumph of a book. Nov 14, 2013 - One of the most fundamental attitude toward life that we seem to agree on today is the pursuit of happiness. Aug 15, 2013 - Chinelo Okparanta was chosen as one of Granta's six new voices for 2012, and it's easy to see why. Mar 5, 2014 - Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Mar 12, 2014 - It seems like a simple formula: Diet plus exercise equals weight-loss success. On this topic, I simply want to present an analogy here. Dec 1, 2013 - Okparanta's writing here is both gentle and confident, a characterization that applies to all ten stories, 'America' among them, in her first published collection, Happiness, like Water. May 22, 2014 - Whatever has been learnt, contemplated and meditated upon by those whose mind lack alertness, just like water in a leaking vase, will not be retained in their memory.” Shantideva on 'Guarding alertness'.