Imagine Me Happy
Jul 2027 · Regal House Publishing
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200
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Sometimes the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows.
Imagine Me Happy moves behind the velvet curtain to reimagine the lives of Edie Sedgwick, Carole Landis, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, and Judy Garland. Icons of stage and screen, they dazzled audiences around the world—yet behind the glamour and carefully constructed personas lay private struggles, fragile hopes, and fears that fame could not erase.
Through an inventive collection of forms, these stories inhabit the space between performance and reality, tracing the emotional lives of women shaped—and often consumed—by an industry built on illusion. Each voice reveals not only the cost of being seen, but the longing to be understood beyond their public facades.
Imagine Me Happy is a haunting, formally daring exploration of celebrity, identity, and the pursuit of authenticity at any cost.
Imagine Me Happy moves behind the velvet curtain to reimagine the lives of Edie Sedgwick, Carole Landis, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, and Judy Garland. Icons of stage and screen, they dazzled audiences around the world—yet behind the glamour and carefully constructed personas lay private struggles, fragile hopes, and fears that fame could not erase.
Through an inventive collection of forms, these stories inhabit the space between performance and reality, tracing the emotional lives of women shaped—and often consumed—by an industry built on illusion. Each voice reveals not only the cost of being seen, but the longing to be understood beyond their public facades.
Imagine Me Happy is a haunting, formally daring exploration of celebrity, identity, and the pursuit of authenticity at any cost.
Sometimes the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows.
Imagine Me Happy moves behind the velvet curtain to reimagine the lives of Edie Sedgwick, Carole Landis, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, and Judy Garland. Icons of stage and screen, they dazzled audiences around the world—yet behind th...
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About the author
Heather Bell Adams is the author of Maranatha Road, winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for the Southeast, and The Good Luck Stone, winner of the Best Historical Novel in the Next Generation Book Awards. Her work has received the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, Carrie McCray Literary Award, and James Still Fiction Prize, among others. She served as North Carolina's Piedmont Laureate and South Carolina's Pat Conroy Writer in Residence.
Heather Bell Adams is the author of Maranatha Road, winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for the Southeast, and The Good Luck Stone, winner of the Best Historical Novel in the Next Generation Book Awards. Her work has received the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, Carrie Mc...
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