Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

OL16488820W Page_number_confidence 94.26 Pages 246 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0. In her LGBT memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011), Jeanette Winterson describes her troubled childhood and urges readers to consider what it means to belong somewhere.The book won the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography and received various other award nominations. 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.

It is not told in a linear fashion but it is full of life and passion. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal is a singular and electric memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). Winterson has such a joy for life and love and language that she quickly becomes her very own one-woman bandone that, luckily for us, keeps playing on. The fierce, curious, brilliant British writer is winningly candid in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:08:06 Boxid IA40257804 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over the novel and the authors life: when Jeanette left home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal is an amazing memoir. 'To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson