Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
This is the funniest sad book I have ever read. Winterson’s mother —
always referred to as Mrs. Winterson — was an abusive,
cigarette-smoking, Pentecostal giantess who never let her adopted
daughter forget that she was taken from “the wrong crib.” Despite a
childhood filled with apocalyptic pronouncements and terrifying
mistreatment, Winterson emerges as a writer of startling self-awareness,
humor, and empathy for the unhappy woman who made her life miserable.
Less a life history than an exploration of a life in process, Why Be Happy captures the writer in her 50s, still trying to figure out how to love and be loved in the absence of a maternal model.
— Rhianna
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