I Want to Be Happy, Not Normal Author: [UK] Jeanette Winterson Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

Introduction
I lived in my home for 16 years. My father was either working the factory shift or at church. My mother was awake all night and depressed all day. I went to school, to church, and into the mountains to read in secret. I learned to hide at an early age. To hide my heart. To cover my thoughts.
My mother didn't love life. She didn't believe anything could make it better. She once told me that the universe was a giant garbage can. After I thought about it for a moment, I asked her whether the lid was closed or open.
"It's locked up," she said. "No one can escape."
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I just can't live in a giant garbage can with the lid closed.
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★ Autobiography of Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
★ Life is not just an arrow of time that flies from the womb to the grave. It is better to live your life according to your own will and get hurt than to follow the arrangements of others and live a shallow life with pretense.
★ The Guardian and The Globe and Mail's Book of the Year
★ The New York Times' annual recommended book
★ Won the Lambda Prize for Literature
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★ As sharp as a knife, as pure as a child's eyes. ——The Daily Telegraph
★ Maybe she had a chance to be happy and normal, but that wouldn't be Jeanette Winterson. - The Sunday Times
★ A book of memories that is different from traditional autobiography, and a book of growth that is as powerful as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. ——New York Times Book Review
A talented contemporary British female writer recommended by Zhang Yueran, Jiang Fangzhuo, Ren Xiaowen and Liu Yu. Recommended by The New York Times, The Guardian and The Globe and Mail!
At the age of 25, Jeanette Winterson made a splash with Oranges; at the age of 52, she revisited her past pain and wrote her autobiography I Want to Be Happy, Not Normal. Reading this book, you will find that the calm humor in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is actually a protective color for the writer's real pain. If there are any setbacks and misfortunes in Winterson's novels, the corresponding reality will only be worse and worse... Winterson analyzes her own experiences and feelings openly and frankly; the traumatic childhood memories and the repressed and painful teenage life are the shadows that cannot be escaped in the future life, and also mean the possibility of tempering and achieving self-realization. As the Times said: "Perhaps she had a chance to be happy and normal, but that would not be Jeanette Winterson." Winterson walked out of the shadow of trauma and forged and achieved herself with courage, love and writing. As Winterson said in the book: "No matter how poor, love life, no matter how you find love, love yourself. Not in a self-centered way, which will go against life and love, but with the determination of a salmon swimming upstream, no matter how turbulent the water, because this is your river." This is a deeply moving memoir, a book of growth full of courage and strength, and a book of life full of inspiration and wisdom.