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Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin5/24/2023 This suitcase, a dominant metaphor in the novel, becomes Bean's touchstone that keeps her from spiraling into the dark worlds of her beautiful, screwed up mother and all the stray men she brings home her sad, exhausted father and her magnetic stepfather as he transforms from family saviour into drunken dragon. *Shortlisted for three 2008 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Fiction, First Book, and City of SaskatoonĬaught in the tight space between love and fear, Bean gallops through her early life picking up shiny bits of beauty along the way and tucking them into a red Samsonite suitcase.
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