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Flatiron Books
October 2015
On Sale: September 22, 2015
300 pages ISBN: 1250077001 EAN: 9781250077004 Kindle: B00V37BC4C Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times
bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle
with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about
crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a
terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what
Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some
people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an
excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of
kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband
first because you suspect he would say no since he's never
particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous
because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their
house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience.
My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should
have been clearer about that before I rented all those
kangaroos.
"Most of my favorite people are
dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've
learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new
normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're
all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding
it.' Except go back and cross out the word
'hiding.'" Furiously Happy is about
"taking those moments when things are fine and making them
amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are,
and they're the same moments we take into battle with us
when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the
difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's
the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your
monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference
between being "sane" and being "furiously
happy." Lawson is beloved around the world for her
inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy,
she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about
embracing everything that makes us who we are - the
beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in
fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says,
"Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is
just right.
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