Self-confessed over-achiever Holly Hughes investigates the impact of ambition on happiness through the lens of a novel's protagonist and his father's struggle with ambition.
Is the pursuit of happiness a Sisyphean task or a question of perspective? Self-confessed over-achiever Holly Hughes investigates, and wonders if ambition is in fact getting in the way.– a novel that explores the plurality of life and the many forking paths of “what ifs” our existence could take – when the inquisitive young protagonist ponders why his father is different from other dads.
His father doesn’t play with him the way other fathers do, his father rebuffs weekend relaxing for working overtime, his father is consistently preoccupied with a business whose profits he stopped needing a long time ago, plagued by an invisible aspiration that precludes happiness as it drives him to achieve some intangible goal. In short, his father is suffering from an acute case of ambition. The kind that borders on obsessive; the kind that is all-consuming, all-encompassing, blinding. This, the astute boy prescribes, is why his father is not, and can never be, happ
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