About the book: 2016 / "Happiness Around the World" is a collection of stories by the famous writer David Shrayer-Petrov. The insight, brevity, and precision inherent in his creative style are reflected in sharp, dynamic and dramatic plots. Selected stories by David Shrayer-Petrov partly echo his novel “Herbert and Nellie” about the exodus of Jews from the USSR. The writer's sophisticated philosophical and historical thinking covers the destinies of the Russian-speaking Jewish intelligentsia scattered around the world. Contradictory characters, dramatic stories - the heroes get used to the new system of human relations. Many of the stories take place not in the isolated emigrant environment, but in the wide open space of American life.