Happy Bad (A Novel)
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Product Details
Author:
Delaney Nolan
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Astra Publishing House (October 14, 2025)
Imprint:
Astra House
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781662603280
ISBN-10:
1662603282
Weight:
14.4oz
Dimensions:
5.75" x 8.6" x 1.08"
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RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_delta_active_D20260617T074121_156615813-20260617.xml
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$26.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
32
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$20.02
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Overview
"Nolan is a skillful satirist, and one whose aim is extensive, wickedly funny and true."—New Orleans Times-Picayune
"A self-assured debut that is also a warning."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It’s a stunner."—Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction from a remarkable new voice in fiction.
Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it’s difficult for Beatrice and the other staff—Arda, Carmen, and Linda—to keep their cool in dust-blown Askewn. But when a heat wave triggers a massive, sustained blackout, Beatrice and the other staff and residents must evacuate. Facing police brutality, sweltering heat, panicked evacuees, the girls’ mounting withdrawal, and the consequences of her own lies, they search for a route out of the blackout zone. A catastrophe novel by turns tender and hilarious, fueled by a low-simmering political rage, Happy Bad is a rocket arrived on Earth.
"A self-assured debut that is also a warning."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It’s a stunner."—Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction from a remarkable new voice in fiction.
Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it’s difficult for Beatrice and the other staff—Arda, Carmen, and Linda—to keep their cool in dust-blown Askewn. But when a heat wave triggers a massive, sustained blackout, Beatrice and the other staff and residents must evacuate. Facing police brutality, sweltering heat, panicked evacuees, the girls’ mounting withdrawal, and the consequences of her own lies, they search for a route out of the blackout zone. A catastrophe novel by turns tender and hilarious, fueled by a low-simmering political rage, Happy Bad is a rocket arrived on Earth.
