A review by jentidders
Happiness by Aminatta Forna

3.0

Jean, an American biologist studying urban foxes in London, bumps into Attila, a Ghanian professor who is visiting to deliver a keynote conference speech on PTSD. Together they hunt for his missing nephew and are aided by a network of kindly immigrants working in the city. This is a beautifully written tale of love, loss, grief, trauma, migration, nature, society, cruelty and kindness. I really loved the way Forna underlines the way we are all interconnected and trying to coexist, humans and animals alike, and what constitutes the nature of true happiness. One of my favourite reads of the year so far.