Happiness for Beginners

Read by Marguerite Gavin In this exuberant novel, a thirtysomething-year-old woman embarks on a wilderness survival course and discovers that sometimes you have to leave things behind in order to find yourself. A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. Its supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brothers even more annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she cant imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helens well-behaved life three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming, where she will survive mosquito infestations, a surprise summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls.