Shari Lapeña

Shari Lapeña reads from her novel, Happiness Economics

Published by: Brindle & Glass

Time of Reading: 5:56

Shari Lapeña worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher before turning to writing fiction. She is a graduate of The Humber School for Writers, where her mentor was David Adams Richards. Her first novel, Things Go Flying, was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunburst Award. She won the Globe and Mail’s Great Toronto Literary Project contest, and was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Awards. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, has just been published. She lives in Toronto.

“Happiness Economics is about lofty ideas like the meaning and relevance of poetry, the validity of ‘the muse’, the way we are raising our children, and capitalism itself. But at its heart it is a beautifully articulated treatise on long-term relationships and how they change as the people in them invariably do, over and over.”
–The Globe and Mail

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