Why read More Happy Than Not?

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A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera’s groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give; a new final chapter, "More Happy Ending"; and an afterword about where it all began.

In his twisty, heartbreaking, profoundly moving New York Times…

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2 authors picked More Happy Than Not as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Darren Campo

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I love the main character’s horrible, deep, dark depression. Aaron’s life as a kid in the projects of New York City means he can’t be gay. So many bad things happen to Aaron that he wants to get a procedure to erase parts of his memory.

I love that just as it seems like Aaron’s life, his friends, his romantic life, his mom and brother, all seem to be somewhat in balance, everything goes to shit and his life is worse than he thought. His father, who he thought died of a heart attack, actually killed himself in the bathtub…

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Aaron H. Aceves

Author

This novel, often pitched as a gay YA Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorite movies), showed a younger me that my style of writing, darkly humorous and contemplative, belonged on a bookstore or library shelf where a teen who needed it could find it.

The book asks a lot of important questions and, by the end, answers them with devastating yet uplifting resonance.

From Aaron's list on books about queer boys written by queer men.