Happy Bad
A Novel
$54.04
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
“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.
“Nolan is a skillful satirist, and one whose aim is extensive, wickedly funny and true.” -
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781662603280 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1662603282 |
| Author: | Delaney Nolan |
| Publisher: | Astra Publishing House |
| Imprint: | Astra House |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“An exhilarating, dynamic, addictive debut, Delaney Nolan’s Happy Bad is a hell of a book.”
-Jami Attenberg, author of A Reason to See You Again
“Delaney Nolan’s breathtaking, sharply crafted debut announces the arrival of an important new writer. The characters who populate these pages are unforgettable. Happy Bad will stand the test of time, but it’s also exactly the kind of book we need in our troubled times.”
-Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man and Witness
About The Author
Delaney Nolan
Delaney Nolan received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She has since received a Pushcart Prize, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship in fiction; her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Guernica, Indiana Review, Oxford American, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and has been adapted into a radio play and a short film. Her work has been chosen as a notable for Best American Essays and translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Italian, and Polish. Based in New Orleans, she has also received recognition for her reporting in The Guardian, The Intercept, BBC, Al Jazeera, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.
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