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You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am

by Tao Lin · 2006

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This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a clean shirt before it loads the gun. You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Amhas the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to be rising but for a moment you forget that, and for a moment this ordinary thing looks very strange and exciting

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 72 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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