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January 2010
On Sale: December 29, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 1416550232
EAN: 9781416550235
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Non-Fiction Memoir
His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be
the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He
was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid who
everyone called Happy, often without even knowing his real
name. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by
sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and
carefree exterior masked his self-destructive and sometimes
cruel behavior as he endured two more brain bleeds and a
crippling depression. After undergoing brain surgery, he is
nursed back to health by his free-spirited artist mother,
who once again teaches him to stand on his own. Alive with unexpected humor and sensuality, Happy is a
hypnotic self-portrait of a young man confronting the
wreckage of his own body; it is also the deeply moving story
of a mother's redemptive and healing powers. Alex Lemon's
Technicolor sentences pop and sing as he writes about
survival -- of the body and of the human spirit.
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