What if an app could quantify exactly how happy you are? That's the premise for Clare Stanford's debut novel, "Happy For You," in which a philosopher leaves academia to work as a researcher for"the third-most popular internet company" where she struggles to find belonging as a biracial woman. "Happy For You,' is a funny story of a woman searching for her identity and a satirical commentary on today's h(app)iness-obsessed world. Plus, a conversation with Mitchell Kaplan at Books and Books.
Other books mentioned in the pod:

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

The Bernstein Bears Series by Stan and Jan Bernstein

Year of Dangerous Days: Riots Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980 by Nicholas Griffin

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

Trust by Hernan Diaz