The Hardship of Your Lives is Over

Are we happy as we are?

A picture from my visit to my grandfather’s childhood home in San Lucido, Italy. I imagine Ganga and Doady’s home looked similar.

I just finished reading a work of fiction by Niall Williams called This is Happiness. In the novel, which is set in Ireland, an old man remembers a short but pivotal time when he was 17. The main character Noel Crowe goes to …