Animal Joy book cover

Graywolf

9781644450932

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Animal Joy

Though Nuar Alsadir set out to write a book about laughter, Animal Joy is a far deeper study of how we express and understand our most powerful emotions.

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Review of ‘Animal Joy’

Though Nuar Alsadir set out to write a book about laughter, Animal Joy is a far deeper study of how we express and understand our most powerful emotions, told through meticulous psychoanalytic research and Alsadir's own experiences.

Animal Joy opens at a clown school where Alsadir enrolled to explore laughter. The only nonactor of the…

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