Shiny Happy People

If you listen in pieces — commute, chores, late night — Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman keeps its place in this browser.

A twisted and edge-of-seat sc-fi horror novel that shines a light on the terrors of the U.S. opioid epidemic, Clay McLeod Chapman has written an instant classic about a mysterious new drug plaguing a small town and the haunting side effects. At sixteen, Kyra is still haunted by the horrors she saw growing up with her drug-addicted mother. She doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere—and disturbing dreams come to her at night.

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