In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author 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.
