Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds--the island home of Sao Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada--experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine. It is a polyphonic novel, in which the voices of three of seven siblings narrate their versions of the family saga in alternating chapters, culminating in a dialogue between the key narrator, Nuno Miguel, and his estranged wife, Marta, who tells the story from her point of view and sheds a harsh...