Happy People
A second chance is a messy thing.
Autumn Reagan is seventeen, funny, and a gifted artist. She has just come home from the hospital, and her family is trying too hard. Her mom books a psychiatrist before dinner is over. Her dad offers to help with math and ends up just praising her drawings. Her best friend Cassie keeps asking questions, and Autumn keeps dodging them.
Then Autumn starts seeing Ozzy, a therapist who is blunt, funny and honest with her, and he brings her into a support group of adults who have been where she is. At school she meets Elise, a new girl who loves her drawings. For the first time in a long time, Autumn is having fun, until her family starts to come apart again and she has to lean on the people she least expected.
Happy People treats teen mental health with honesty and warmth. It never lectures, it’s funny when real people are funny and devastating when they aren’t, and it ends with hope that feels earned.
Paya Lisette
Beau Ferguson
Peyton Standridge
Macy Price
Eric Pfeifer
