Jeanette Winterson’s 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, is a many-layered exploration of the author’s unusual childhood with a Pentecostal adoptive mother and her attempts to recove…
Bookworm: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
For many introverts, reading offers a respite from bafflement at their differences from gregarious peers. Here’s Jeanette Winterson’s take on what reading meant growing up in Manchester, England.
