FURIOUSLY HAPPY is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways-and who doesn't need a bit more of that? Jenny's first book, LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'' Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. '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. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.' My husband says that none is the new limit. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.Īccording to Jenny: '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. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. In her new book, FURIOUSLY HAPPY, Jenny explores her lifelong battle with mental illness.

In LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up the daughter of a taxidermist.

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