TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elliott,Stephen
TI  - Happy baby: a novel 
SN  - 1555977766
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Juvenile detention homes
KW  - Adult child sexual abuse victims
KW  - First loves
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old Theo and his search for sexual and emotional freedom, and slowly unravels back to a childhood of abuse in the juvenile detention centers of Chicago. Without judgment, Elliott traces a life defined by yearning--for love, for pain, for certainty. His clear words and unflinching gaze reveal the difficulty of simple truths and the possibility of transcendence in the face of unforgivable crimes
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