The book is characterized by genuine sentiment, sharp emotional acuity and a boisterous humour keeping it from slipping into arch sentimentality. Williams writes with a musical sensibility, playing individual words as notes in melodic sentences that dip and dance, that are almost impossible not to read aloud. Of the rain, for example, Williams writes, “It came in sweeps, in waves, sometimes in veils. It came the bright day, the fine day, and the day promised dry. “This is Happiness” lives up to its title, with a clear understanding of the unstated correlative: for there to be happiness, there must be sadness.

Source: thestar January 02, 2020 12:00 UTC