Title:
Why be happy when you could be normal? / Jeanette Winterson.
ISBN:
9780802120106
9780802120878
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Grove Press, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
230 pages ; 22 cm
Awards Note:
Honor book for Stonewall Book Award (Nonfiction / 2013)
Summary:
Traces the author's lifelong search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother. By the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn771942079
Availability:
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