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Tell the machine goodnight, by Katie Williams

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Tell the machine goodnight, by Katie Williams

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Tell the machine goodnight

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1041153550

Responsibility statement

by Katie Williams

Summary

Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness." As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either.-Amazon

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