In Happy For You by Claire Stanford, an app asks you whether you are happy.  You answer, Yes, No, or I Don’t Know.  The main character Evelyn works on the development of the app as a beta user.  She’s going through big life changes as she quits her PHD program to work at the company developing the app.  When I first started reading the book, it felt a bit superficial and slow.  The middle picked up and then the end kind of surprised me.  It isn’t that the book goes out on a limb, because the things encountered by Evelyn are things a lot of people deal with.  The writing about the things we encounter in life really made me think about how we define our lives.  I began to understand without sorrow, challenges, and regret can we truly understand happiness not just for ourselves but for others.  Happy For You really made me think about how we decide whether we are happy and whether those around us are happy.