Monday Moments - This is Happiness by Niall Williams

I enjoyed History of the Rain so much, I had to  find other Niall  Williams to read.  This is Happiness did not disappoint. 

cover blurb - Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish  parish unaltered in a thousand years. Electricity is  coming and the rain seems to stop. 

Noel Crowe is seventeen, restless, and a bit excited when Christy comes to Faha. He has secrets and a past love here in Faha. Meanwhile, Noel falls in and out  of love with three sisters - all out of his  league.  

cover blurb - Niall Williams gives us  a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - with a tender coming of age story. 

I enjoyed the writing  - Williams' Irish lilt and his meandering ways all lend a charm.  Not a lot really happens and that's okay.  It's just the journey and time spent in  town - the gossip, the silences, the "scandal", and the time going to church, discussing church, avoiding church, and hoping the  rains come again.  That is happiness.