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Luke Daniels
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Ripped apart by Portugal's financial crisis, Daniel's family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal.
Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car, and finds himself living in his old, abandoned office building, Daniel fights the realization that things have changed. He's unable to see what remains among the rubble - friendship, his family's love, and people's deep desire to connect. If Daniel can let go of the past and find his true self, he just might save not only himself but also everyone that really matters to him.
©2013 David Machado (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Translation © 2016 by Hillary Locke.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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A good contemporary story
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Hmmm...
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a pleasant surprise
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What disappointed you about The Shelf Life of Happiness?
everything, the whole bookWhat was most disappointing about David Machado and Hillary Locke - translator ’s story?
pick anything, it's all so depressingWho would you have cast as narrator instead of Luke Daniels?
wouldn't have matteredIf you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Shelf Life of Happiness?
the entire book, then start overAny additional comments?
I don't recommend this book.Completely depressing
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