![]() In a column written in 2009, Winterson writes about the depression, now past: Interestingly, although her adoptive mother was a “flamboyant depressive” and the author’s childhood had been so traumatic, Winterson generally hadn’t had trouble with mood issues until the combination of the breakup and finding out more things about her adoption. Her successful writing career, though, is not a focus of this memoir instead, she fast-forwards to more recent times. She becomes an award-winning author in her early 20’s. ![]() If there’s indeed such a choice to be made, it seems that Winterson goes for happy. “I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule…The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.” I mean, Why be happy when you could be normal? Winterson,” the emotionally and physically abusive adoptive mother who strongly disapproved of the author’s teen romance with another female. ![]() The title’s words Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal are those of “Mrs. ![]() Prolific novelist Jeanette Winterson, probably best known for her 1985 novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, has written a nonfiction book about herself called Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?I have to agree with a writer in The Huffington Post who called this “arguably one of the best titles for a memoir, ever.” ![]()
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