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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things Paperback - 2015

by Lawson, Jenny

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  • Title Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things
  • Author Lawson, Jenny
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Flatiron Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2015-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR007544975
  • ISBN 9781250077004 / 1250077001
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Library Reads
  • Library of Congress subjects Mental illness, Journalists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015022196
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

"Jenny made me laugh so hard I feared for my safety! I think that's how she was able to get past my defenses and make me feel more okay about myself." -Allie Brosh, author ofHyperbole and a Half For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey, and Mindy Kaling-the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1New York Times bestseller LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED... In LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up the daughter of a taxidermist. In her new book,FURIOUSLY HAPPY, Jenny explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. According to Jenny: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invitea herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says thatnone is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos." "Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote inThe Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'" Jenny's first book, LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness.FURIOUSLY HAPPY is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways-and who doesn't need a bit more of that?

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2015, Page 4
  • BookPage, 10/01/2015, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2015, Page 28
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2015, Page 112
  • People Weekly, 09/28/2015, Page 50
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/31/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 09/25/2015, Page 0

About the author

JENNY LAWSON, The Bloggess, is an award-winning humor writer known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with depression and mental illness. Her memoirs, Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy, were #1 New York Times bestsellers

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