by Jeanette Winterson · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099556091
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«Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?» is the autobiography of Jeanette Winterson, published by Vintage in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Autobiography in which Winterson revisits her childhood in Accrington as the adopted daughter of a Pentecostal family, the difficult relationship with her mother, her first love for a woman, and leaving home at sixteen. It complements «Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit» from non-fiction: a search for happiness, identity and the maternal figure with pain, humour and vitality.
This Vintage edition, published in 2012, received the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in the non-fiction category.
A suitable read for book clubs and for those who enjoy sincere memoirs, with humour and emotion, about identity, family and lesbian experience.
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
