This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin
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Daphne Merkin,
Farrar,
Straus & Giroux
Quoting Rilke's "Ninth Elegy":
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, Just once. And never again.