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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“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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“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.

 

Publisher: Vintage

Paperback

2012

ISBN: 9780099556091

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