Comic and poignant in equal measure.

The New Yorker

Escaping into the pages of “This Is Happiness" feels as much like time travel as enlightenment. Halfway through, I realized that if I didn't stop underlining passages, the whole book would be underlined…. Williams is engaged in the careful labor of teaching us to hear the subtler melodies drowned out by the din of modern life… This is a story about the beginnings of love and the persistence of affection, about the loss of faith and the recovering of belief. If you're a reader of a certain frame of mind, craving a novel of delicate wit laced with rare wisdom, this, truly, is happiness.

Ron Charles, Washington Post

This big-hearted story is an intimate study of a small place on the brink of change.

New York Times

It's one of those books that every single sentence I wanted to underline and sit with and think about. While this is not a sad book, it's a book that if you are sad you should read. It's a book that places you in life and makes you see the larger picture and the passage of time.

Ann Patchett, Parnassus Books Instagram

The glorious, playful language! I spent so much time rereading sentences that it took me two months to finish this book.

Kim Fay, author of KATE & FRIDA, Shelf Awareness

An often delightful, rural rhapsody.

Wall Street Journal