Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stands for everything she detests—"Happiness and Love” is a piercing debut novel about brazen materialism, self-obsession, and the empty careerism of so-called cultural elites. Named one of New York Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, this debut is for anyone who has sat in a room of people and felt entirely alone, for anyone who has heard a work of art described as “sublime” and rolled their eyes, and for anyone who’s ever succumbed to nagging judgments about the easiest targets of all—our friends. Meet the author and join the conversation on Microsoft Teams: https://queenslib.org/112