Just when the stories in More Happy Love seem about to end, they veer around one more corner, taking us somewhere creepy or illuminating or unexpected, but always somewhere exactly right. This is Joanna Pearson's gift. Her characters have unsettled pasts and unsettling presents, revealed via the constant of her elegantly precise prose. I loved these stories!

Lori Ostlund, author of ARE YOU HAPPY?

Each story in More Happy Love glimmers with a crisp and eerie intelligence. Pearson is masterful at walking the thrilling ledge between the mind and its outward reaches.

Aysegül Savas, author of THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS and LONG DISTANCE

Deeply alive, moving, and disquieting, these stories kept surprising me.

Camille Bordas, author of ONE SUN ONLY

In these stories, Joanna Pearson constructs exquisite, fine-tuned machines of wonder and dread. So skillful is her hand that we don't even see the ways the delicate gears of disaster and revelation are beginning to turn until the final click, in all its delicious inevitability. No one else writes stories like these; the brilliant Pearson is working at the top of her form.

Clare Beams, author of THE ILLNESS LESSON and THE GARDEN

More Happy Love had me seeing double. It is spellbinding and spooky and exactly the kind of book I long for. Here we see love in all its forms, at turns ugly, spectacular, perverse, and beautiful. Characters grapple toward connection in fully unexpected ways. Cunningly plotted, devastating in its portrayal of inner lives, this is one of the most satisfying collections I've read in a long time.

Sarah Braunstein, author of BAD ANIMALS and BABY IN A BOX

Joanna Pearson's new collection is a dangerous delight: every combustible story within creates its own small explosion. Closely observed, subtly written, and expertly paced, these stories are nonetheless wild, burning with a fierce, unpredictable energy.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of MADELEINE IS SLEEPING and LIKES