Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - Softcover

Jenny Lawson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447238346 ISBN 13: 9781447238348

Publisher: Picador, 2016

Synopsis

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...

In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she 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.

As Jenny says: 'You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy.' It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life.

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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Review:

Praise for Jenny Lawson:

"We re living in an era of bestselling books by female comedians But Lawson s book needs no lovable, familiar face on the front cover She s unapologetic, candid, outrageous, and the book reaches new levels of hilarity because of it." Entertainment Weekly (A)

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

You'll laugh, wince, writhe in discomfort, cry, then laugh again But the two things you'll never do is doubt Jenny's brilliance or her fearlessness She's changing the conversation one rented sloth at a time. Brene Brown

Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way. O, The Oprah Magazine

Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose. Parade

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Praise for Jenny Lawson:

"We're living in an era of bestselling books by female comedians... But Lawson's book needs no lovable, familiar face on the front cover...She's unapologetic, candid, outrageous, and the book reaches new levels of hilarity because of it." --Entertainment Weekly (A)

"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

"You'll laugh, wince, writhe in discomfort, cry, then laugh again...But the two things you'll never do is doubt Jenny's brilliance or her fearlessness...She's changing the conversation one rented sloth at a time." --Brene Brown

"Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose." --Parade

From the Author:

Jenny Lawson - also known as The Bloggess - is an award-winning and wildly popular columnist and blogger, known for her great candour in talking about her struggle with depression and mental illness. She is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened. You can find her online at www.thebloggess.com or on Twitter @TheBloggess.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1447238346
• ISBN 13: 9781447238348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352