From the beloved author of Half of What You Hear, a perceptive and poignant novel about a woman discovering that her expertisecan only get her so far in matters of the heart.Charlotte McGanley knows happiness.Just ask anyone who's read Perfect Happiness, her bestselling bookabout how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positivepsychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her careerbeginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now she's become a bit of aself-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, whohas secretly never been more miserable. Though her husband ofmany years, Jason, is her partner in all things, she finds more gratificationmost evenings in a glass (or three) of Chardonnay or another scroll through herInstagram feed. Meanwhile, their daughter, Birdie, is feeling the pressure ofbeing her high school's star tennis player, keeping up her GPA, and having herfirst boyfriend--and Charlotte, despite all her expertise, has no idea how tohelp her. As Charlotte preachesthe gospel of happiness to her undergraduate students, audiences across thecountry, and her own online followers, she's faced with some tough questions: Whatis happiness when the family you've nurtured starts to fall apart in front ofyour eyes? When your daughter seems determined to self-destruct? When the manyou thought you'd spend the rest of your life with--and took for granted becauseof it--gets fed up? When all of the tools that you push to your loyal followers justdon't seem to work? In this bittersweetfamily love story, Kristyn Kusek Lewis explores how easy it is to loseconnection with the people closest to us, and what happens when we try to findour way back.