Written by: Ross Gay
First line: One day last July, feeling delighted and compelled to both wonder about and share that delight, I decided that it might feel nice, even useful, to write a daily essay about something delightful.
Why you should read this book: In the tradition of daily affirmations and daily gratitudes, an award-winning poet seeks to catalog those fleeting moments of delight, which bring sometimes unspeakable joy to a moment, but, unrecorded, often vanish with the passage of time. But these delights (high fives from strangers, Botan rice candy, the reactions you observe in others when you board an airplane carrying a tomato seedling) are immortalized in a book that transcends its stated motive and also examines the intersection of these delights with experiences of racism, death, or similarly undelightful concepts. These mini-essays, 102 of them, allow the reader to dip into the book for just the right sized helping of delight to combat difficult times.
Why you shouldn't read this book: You don't believe in happiness.
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