RaveToronto Star (CAN)not only an understated coming-of-age story and a reckoning with the failures of the past but an entire community, and a whole, now-vanished world. The book is characterized by genuine sentiment, sharp emotional acuity and a boisterous humour keeping it from slipping into arch sentimentality. Williams writes with a musical sensibility, playing individual words as notes in melodic sentences that dip and dance, that are almost impossible not to read aloud ... This is Happiness lives up to its title, with a clear understanding of the unstated correlative: for there to be happiness, there must be sadness.
