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“You Are Happy?”<\/span>
\n<\/strong>by Akhil Sharma<\/span>
\nfrom the April 17, 2017 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]A[\/fusion_dropcap]khil Sharma’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0a few times over the past few years (you can see our responses to “We Didn’t Like Him,”<\/a> “A Mistake,”<\/a> and “A Life of Adventure and Delight”<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve tended to enjoy his work, though I still haven’t read his Folio Prize winning novel\u00a0Family Life<\/em> (which Lee reviewed for the site here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I am glad to see that this is not an excerpt from a novel. Rather, as discussed in Sharma’s interview with Deborah Treisman (here<\/a>), “You Are Happy?” is a story in Sharma’s collection A Life of Adventure and Delight<\/em>, which is being published this summer.<\/p>\n

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