Lawson’s own furiously happy stories are personal and relatable and I’m grateful she’s sharing them with the world so that those of us dealing with our own personal demons can feel less alone. The title “furiously happy” refers to celebrating your “up days” when you have them so that they sustain you through darker times. While Furiously Happy is still very funny, it’s also an honest portrayal of living with depression, anxiety, and an autoimmune disorder. In Lawson’s new book of personal essays, Furiously Happy, she switches gears a little to the topic of mental illness. Lawson’s dark and quirky sense of humor and laugh out loud stories resonated with readers and her book became a huge hit. Because as Jenny's mom says, 'Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all.' Sometimes crazy is just right.Ī few years ago I raved about Jenny Lawson’s humorous memoir debut Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, a book about Lawson’s eccentric upbringing in rural Texas and how she became the Bloggess we know her as today. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. It's the difference between 'taking a shower' and 'teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair.' It's the difference between being 'sane' and being 'furiously happy.' It's the difference between 'surviving life' and 'living life'. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.īut terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.įuriously Happy is about 'taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Humor, GeneralĪlso by this author: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Published by Macmillan Audio on September 22nd 2015 Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

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