Everyone's Happy

By: Rufi Thorpe

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

From the critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen and The Girls from Corona del Mar comes a darkly humorous story that charts the unlikely friendship of two women and exposes the absurdity of everything from playground drama to marriage to Goodreads reviews.

Motherhood has turned out to be a lot weirder and lonelier than Mary anticipated - has the world gone crazy, or has she? Most of the time, it feels like both. But when her oldest starts kindergarten, Mary meets another mom, Fiona, and the two form an unusual yet exhilarating friendship. There’s only one problem: Mary doesn’t really like Fiona’s husband, Andreas. What begins as a minor irritation keeps intensifying and changing shape in Mary’s mind as Andreas’s perceived wrongdoings pile up, until she can’t distinguish integrity from self-sabotage.

Everyone’s Happy is both an unnervingly honest examination of the shifting loyalties between family and friendship and a love letter to the absurd banalities of suburban life.

©2020 Rufi Thorpe (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

Great

Such a great overall story it literally had me stop what I was doing several times just to listen what was gonna happen next. Thank you!

Really enjoyed reading this!

The characters Rufi created here were nuanced and fascinating! Especially the part where she roasts book reviews, which makes me really self conscious writing this 😕

Intimate look at 2 couples relationships

Deep thoughts of 2 couples, in which the 2 ladies become besties, because of their children. We get to hear the innermost thoughts of the women as they think about aspects of the relationship and each other, and what happens when sometimes, those thoughts get said out loud. There were a few explicit moments. It did on a couple of occasions feel like the ramblings went to far away from the storyline and I wasn't sure which character was saying what but overall an entertaining listen.

Huh!?

This would have been a good book, but it just ended. Just was DONE... Had so much information &then no explanation or outcome of any of it. Very odd. Too odd. You got 2 crazy chicks w/2 sad husbands that just ARE... I really was engrossed into it too. HMPH...
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Women trapped in “womanhood”

Absolutely amazing story about women trapped in societal expectations, and when breaking away from these expectations—even in the smallest of ways—tension sparks in their marriages, relationships, and, most importantly, with themselves. 10/10 and will be listening again.