You Could Be Happy Here

<p><b><i>How far would you go to find your true home? ​</i></b></p><p>Lucy-single childless in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems in part to make sense of human behavior. ​That hard-won insight is shattered when her mother dies prematurely her sister claims the California family home and Lucy learns that her biological father is apparently a Costa Rican they knew when the family spent summers in the coastal village of Palmita. ​</p><p>Reeling Lucy heads south in search of this phantom father.​ But he is nowhere to be found and none of the locals seem to remember her. The dreamy off-grid paradise she recalls from childhood has become a hard-edged town leery of outsiders. ​</p><p><i>You Could be Happy Here</i> is a story of identity belonging and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home. </p>