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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson's memoir covers the same ground as Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, replacing its softer edges with harsh reality, and then moves beyond it. The choice to skip approximately half of her life (and the majority of her professional career) is probably questionable, but if the book is viewed as one woman's coming to terms with both her adoption and her own perceived deficiencies in the giving of love, it's successful.
Writing one's memoir at 52 means that the story is far from over: this ends, then follows its conclusion with a coda suggesting that anything could change in Winterson's life at any time. Nothing is absolute - but if we've seen the beginning and the end (so far) of Winterson's story, would we really want to come back to read the middle?
Writing one's memoir at 52 means that the story is far from over: this ends, then follows its conclusion with a coda suggesting that anything could change in Winterson's life at any time. Nothing is absolute - but if we've seen the beginning and the end (so far) of Winterson's story, would we really want to come back to read the middle?