The Curious Case of Happiness
Not a whodunit, but a what-if...the search for happiness begins with the ache beneath our desires.
It was a dark, rainy night. The only light in the room came from the glow of a candle — smoke curling upward — competing with the flicker of the TV screen where a niece and an aunt played out an age-old drama. Not in shadowy black-and-white, but in the lush hues of HBO’s The Gilded Age.
Onscreen, Marian sighed that perhaps she’d be happier as a spinster.…
