I laugh because this is a familiar argument. 'You're not crazy and you need to stop saying you are. 'That's not crazy,' my mom says as she turns back to scrubbing the dishes. 'And fucked up enough to require an assload of meds,' I add. STOP CALLING YOURSELF CRAZY,' my mom says for the eleventy billionth time. flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose.'You're not crazy. “Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson. “Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate it allows her to speak.in a real and raw way.” - O, The Oprah Magazine “You'll laugh, wince, writhe in discomfort, cry, then laugh again…But the two things you'll never do is doubt Jenny's brilliance or her fearlessness…She's changing the conversation one rented sloth at a time.” -Brené Brown “Jenny made me laugh so hard I feared for my safety! I think that's how she was able to get past my defenses and make me feel more okay about myself.” -Allie Brosh 'We’re living in an era of bestselling books by female comedians… But Lawson’s book needs no lovable, familiar face on the front cover…She’s unapologetic, candid, outrageous, and the book reaches new levels of hilarity because of it.' - Entertainment Weekly (A) Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it's about joy-and who doesn't want a bit more of that? Let's Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family-and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny's core fan base but also transcends it.

Jenny’s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. And that's what Furiously Happy is all about.' 'I've often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people' also might never understand. In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:

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