The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Darkly Comic Novel Set in Modern India Michelle de Kretser " "Practical Ethics

" "Practical Ethics

where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields

it could so easily have all gone

he completed the task in an intense six weeks

Finishing Strong

The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Darkly Comic Novel Set in Modern India Michelle de Kretser " "Practical EthicsOusep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." His wife Mariamma stretches their money, raises their two boys, and, in her spare time, gleefully fantasizes about Ousep dying. One day, their seemingly happy seventeen year old son Unni an obsessed comic book artist falls from the balcony, leaving them to wonder whether it was an accident. Three years later, Ousep receives a package that sends him