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¿Por Qué Ser Feliz Cuando Puedes Ser Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

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Book name: ¿Por Qué Ser Feliz Cuando Puedes Ser Normal? (2024)
Category: Adoption
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Pages: 300 pages
Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 1, 2011, midnight
The book is a poignant and introspective memoir that explores the author's journey of self-discovery and resilience in the face of adversity. It delves into her complex relationship with her adoptive mother, a strict and religious woman, and the challenges she faced growing up in a working-class town in England. The narrative intertwines themes of identity, love, and the search for belonging, as the author reflects on her experiences of being a lesbian in a hostile environment and her quest for happiness and authenticity. Through candid storytelling, the book offers a powerful meditation on the struggle to find one's true self amidst societal and familial pressures.

About the author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

7 books

Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.

One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during t… Read more