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Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
As Jenny says
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 invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none 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 in The 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."
Furiously 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. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life."
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."
Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. 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.
Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.
(Summary provided by the publisher)
According to Jenny Lawson, she has been blogging about her strange little life for almost a decade. It’s mainly dark humor mixed with brutally honest periods of mental illness. She’s not sure how it happened, but somehow this became a very popular, award-winning blog. In 2012, her first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Her second book, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things spent 5 months on the NYT top 20 best seller list. She wants to assure everyone that no one was more surprised about this than Jenny. She assumes she in a coma and all of you are fever-dreams. Magnificent fever-dreams.
Known for her sardonic wit and her hysterically skewed outlook on life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people question their own sanity, as they found themselves admitting that they, too, often wondered why Jesus wasn't classified as a zombie, or laughed to the point of bladder failure when she accidentally forgot that she mailed herself a cobra. Her blog, www.thebloggess.com is award-winning and extremely popular. She lives with her husband Victor, their child named Hailey, three cats named Ferris Mewler, Hunter S. Thomcat and Rolly, and their dog Dorothy Barker.
(Biography provided by Bentonville Public Library)
