01729cam a2200349 i 4500 386565198 TxGeo 20190712120000.0 180414s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018001398 9780385542883 hbk. 0385542887 hbk. (OCoLC)1019652476 TxGeo rda Havrilesky, Heather. What if this were enough : essays / Heather Havrilesky. First edition. New York, NY : Doubleday, [2018] xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- The land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- The miracle of the mundane. "Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"-- Provided by publisher. 20190719. Havrilesky, Heather. Happiness. Conduct of life. Women Biography. Essays. QS5