I returned to Jeanette Winterson’s 2011 memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? last night, which is about the abuse she suffered as a child, her deeply unhappy mother, and her life as an adult dealing with the emotional fallout of such bleakness and the rejection of her sexuality. It is as I remembered it: breathtakingly beautiful, so incredibly …
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