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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Grove. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9780802120878. pap. $15; ebk. ISBN 9780802194756.

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An acclaimed British novelist, Winterson deftly writes of a rough childhood with her adoptive fundamentalist parents in a dark, industrial town. It's England, the 1960s, and the air is full of social change but not in her family. This is a bold, raw coming-of-age story of a girl who escapes and learns to accept herself and become a successful author. (LJ 11/1/11)

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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