I'm So Happy for You: A novel about best friends

What if your best friend, whom you've always counted on to flounder in life and love (making your own modest accomplishments look not so bad), suddenly starts to surpass you in every way?

Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is...not so happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend -- all the while wearing her best, I'm-so-happy-for-you smile -- and ends up in way over her head.

Rosenfeld has a knack for exposing the not-always-pretty side of being best friends -- in writing that is glittering and diamond-sharp. I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU is a smart, darkly humorous, and uncannily dead-on novel about female friendship.

Author: Lucinda Rosenfeld
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780316044509

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2009 pg. 26
Booklist 05/15/2009 pg. 19
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2009
Entertainment Weekly 08/07/2009 pg. 63
New Yorker (The) 08/10/2009 pg. 81
New York Times Book Review 08/30/2009 pg. 19
BookPage 08/01/2009

About the Author
Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of the novels The Pretty One, What She Saw..., Why She Went Home, and I'm So Happy For You. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, oprah.com, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.