Yasmina Reza

Searching, Elusively, For The Happy

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 6, 2015

Award-winning French playwright and author Yasmina Reza talks about her new novel, Happy are the Happy. The twenty short chapters deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives.

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