Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.--Vogue
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a
dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric .
. . Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was often
appalling, but it made her the writer she is.--The New York Times
Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our
time--searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between
forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual
expansion of herself and of us. . . . In Why Be Happy, Winterson's]
emotional life is laid bare . . . in] a bravely frank narrative of
truly coming undone. For someone in love with disguises,
Winterson's openness is all the more moving; there's nothing left
to hide, and nothing left to hide behind.--Elle
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her
widespread acclaim, establishing 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 best-selling 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 classes.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's
work to find happiness. It is 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 a north England industrial town now changed beyond
recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the
story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had
written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life,
sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of
her biological mother. It is also a book about other people's
literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can form a string
of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are
sinking.
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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