"This Is Happiness chronicles the arrival of electricity in the small Irish village of Faha in 1958, an event that splits the lives of the citizens into the periods of before and after."
"I think I understood too that I was living in the vestige of a world whose threads were all the time blowing away, the young narrator says of when the man came to sell them fine appliances that could be purchased in advance of electricity's arrival."
"Cellphones were a means of making a person trackable. I wasn't falling for that. The few flip phones I've had in my life died ignoble, uncharged deaths in the backs of dresser drawers."
"Email was a different story. Email was something I engaged with intimately, feeling its connection to a time and space that now seem irretrievable."
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