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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Grove Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
224 pages ISBN: 0802120105 EAN: 9780802120106 Kindle: B007D6EW8U Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as a major
figure in world literature. She has written some of the most
admired books of the past few decades, including her
internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal
parents that is now often required reading in contemporary
fiction. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a
life’s work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories:
about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep
all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother
who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the
dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an
north England industrial town now changed beyond
recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought
she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending
her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of
her biological mother. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You
Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging—for
love, identity, home, and a mother.
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