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In Furiously Happy, No.1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "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. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos. "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. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, ´We´re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.´ Except go back and cross out the word ´hiding.´"Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they´re the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It´s the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It´s the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It´s the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy."Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny´s mom says, "Maybe ´crazy´ isn´t so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right"

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JENNY LAWSON, The Bloggess, is an award-winning humor writer known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with depression and mental illness. Her two memoirs, Let´s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy, were No.1 New York Times bestsellers.

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