SuitabookStealing Happy
Brian Conaghan
- Themes
- Financial hardship and social inequality: A rent debt to a notorious loan shark prompts Sonny, Jonah and Carolina to devise a plan to repay it using the loan shark's ill-gotten money. The story combines financial hardship, family pressure and social inequality.
- Friendship and collective action: Sonny devises the debt-repayment plan with his friends Jonah and Carolina. Friendship is among the story's stated concerns.
- Neurodiversity: Sonny's Tourette's can trigger involuntary outbursts at moments that complicate the scheme. Neurodiversity is among the story's stated concerns.
- Worth knowing
- Sonny's mother has borrowed rent money from a notorious loan shark, and Sonny's father is unable to work because of long Covid.