{"product_id":"why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal-9780802120878","title":"Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times bestseller: The \"magnificent\" memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—\"A tour de force of literature and love\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' \"50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not the Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"singular and electric\" memoir about a life's work to find happiness (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). 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, rose to haunt the author 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 the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, \u003ci\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/i\u003e is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jeanette Winterson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955823186038,"sku":"9780802120878","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_607ce98d-ece6-4432-8e7f-07b6336c1be2.jpg?v=1767711278","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal-9780802120878","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}