{"product_id":"the-true-happiness-company-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"The True Happiness Company: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVeena Dinavahi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative therapist and his self-help cult.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is hard for Veena Dinavahi to live while her classmates keep dying. The high-achieving daughter of loving Indian immigrants, Veena lives in a typical white American suburb--except for its unusually high suicide rate. For years, she tries to manage her mental health in all the right ways, but nothing seems to work. Until, on a late-night Google search, Veena's mom discovers Bob Lyon--a sixty-year-old white man in the backwoods of Georgia who claims he can make her want to live again. He calls himself \"The True Happiness Company\" and, as their relationship progresses, \"Daddy.\" Veena becomes increasingly enveloped in his strangely close-knit community, and before she knows it, she's a college dropout, married mother of three, and Mormon convert who has gotten way too good at dismissing her gut feeling that something is wrong. But when Veena's treatment goes too far, she slowly begins to question whether true happiness can even exist as an absolute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory debut, Veena traces the contours of her life to explore the question that plagued her in the years afterward: \u003ci\u003e how did I fall for that\u003c\/i\u003e? And what will it mean to move forward? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with unflinching clarity and shot through with incisive wit, \u003ci\u003eThe True Happiness Company \u003c\/i\u003eis Veena Dinavahi's singular exploration of what it means to lose and reclaim your identity, rethink mental illness, and learn to trust your intuition in a world determined to annihilate it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVeena Dinavahi\u003c\/b\u003e is an Indian American writer who divides her time between Connecticut and New York. Her personal essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePulp Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a degree in psychology from Columbia University and currently works in the fashion industry. \u003ci\u003eThe True Happiness Company\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.36 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52469786378547,"sku":"9780593447659","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/R0KsQ0in549780593447659.webp?v=1759402414","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-true-happiness-company-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}