Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of More Happy Love by Joanna Pearson, which will be published on May 18, 2027 by Bloomsbury. You can pre-order your copy here. Read “The Oracle” in Recommended Reading to get a sneak preview!
“Exquisite writer” (Julia Phillips), psychiatrist, and conjurer of the uncanny Joanna Pearson returns to the short story form with virtuosic intensity, insight, and intimacy.
The stories in More Happy Love speak to the many faces of mid-life’s quiet revolt. A psychiatrist meets her late husband’s harshest critic, torn between insatiable lust and vengeance. A timid mother realizes that to save her daughter she must terrorize her. An audiologist begins discovering precious gemstones in th...


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