This Is Happy occupies and exceeds that space. Gibb, who’s spent no small amount of time in psychoanalysis, approaches her own story with a shrewd awareness of both herself and the broader cultural echoes of her experience. In a scene from the night her marriage ends, she quotes a stinging Didion line: “Life changes in the instant. These books, O’Rourke suggests, “create a public space where we can talk safely about grief.” To make sense of her experience, O’Rourke wrote a memoir, 2011’s The Long Goodbye, joining an ever-expanding contemporary canon of first-person ruminations on loss and sadness - a genre crystalized by Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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