{"product_id":"why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal-0802120873-used","title":"Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0802120873\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Winterson, Jeanette\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\" (Vogue).One of the New York Times' \"50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\"Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes.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). 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.Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging-for love, identity, home, and a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67588077256992,"sku":"USED0802120873","price":12.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/7173bQKtSQL_e24b9466-d170-4c52-983f-b7bc9b5815da.jpg?v=1790581761","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal-0802120873-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}