What if this were enough? : essays / Heather Havrilesky

The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.

Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism.

English