April 26, 2012
“Lucia Perillo has aready won (& broken) hearts through her poetry, but now she takes it up a notch, blossoming into a flawless collection of incredible short stories. This collection is raw, yet so polished . . . Not since Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff has a gathering of stories packed themselves into one powerful punch.”—Donna, Powell’s on Hawthorne, Portland. Buy Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain from Powell’s Books.