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About product How to patent happiness? How do you measure emotions? What if the path to your happiness lies next to the rest of your breakfast bagel? What if the only way is to deliberately give up all joy? Or something socially condemned that needs to be done? The fantasy novel by Katie Williams answers questions in the spirit of the best dystopias of the 20th century, addressing the realities of our time. Film rights sold to IM Global. «Inventive» — Real Simple. Best SF — NPR. Abstract There are tangerines, work in the morning light and … amputate the phalanx of the index finger on the right hand. What recommendations will you hear from the happiness machine? Pearl works for a huge corporation. According to a patented scheme, it makes everyone happier. Mechanism’s advice can be absurd. But Pearl loves the job, and the customers are happy. Apart from her own teenage son Rhett. It is said that «happiness is Apricity.»
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