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An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

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In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American womans 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.

It 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 suburbexcept 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, Veenas mom discovers Bob Lyona 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, shes 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 Veenas treatment goes too far, she slowly begins to question whether true happiness can even exist as an absolute.

The True Happiness Company

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