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Also by Delaney Nolan:

Happy Bad, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book

Happy Bad
Delaney Nolan

A Novel

Astra House
October 2025
On Sale: October 14, 2025
304 pages
ISBN: 1662603282
EAN: 9781662603280
Kindle: B0DT1ZYT4V
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Southern

Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction from a remarkable new voice in fiction.

Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it’s difficult for Beatrice and the other staff—Arda, Carmen, and Linda—to keep their cool in dust-blown Askewn. But when a heat wave triggers a massive, sustained blackout, Beatrice and the other staff and residents must evacuate. Facing police brutality, sweltering heat, panicked evacuees, the girls’ mounting withdrawal, and the consequences of her own lies, they search for a route out of the blackout zone. A catastrophe novel by turns tender and hilarious, fueled by a low-simmering political rage, Happy Bad is a rocket arrived on Earth.  

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