Chicago Public Library-Blog: If You Liked Broken (In The Best Possible Way) By Jenny Lawson

Chicago IL

11 May, 2021

2:36 PM

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Press release from the Chicago Public Library-blog: Amy May 11, 2021 The brilliant, hilarious Jenny Lawson is back with Broken (in The Best Possible Way). As in her previous books Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy, she demystifies anxiety and depression with funny, honest, sometimes heartbreaking stories of what living her best life looks like when everything is harder than it should be. Here are a few more books, some funny, some more serious, about living with mental illness and attempting to thrive anyway. Broken (in the Best Possible Way) Broken (in the Best Possible Way) Lawson, Jenny, 1973-Lawson, Jenny, 1973- Book, 2021All copies in useView detailsView details for Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Book, All copies in useHolds: 3 on 82 copies Let's Pretend This Never Happened Let's Pretend This Never Happened (a Mostly True Memoir)Lawson, Jenny, 1979-Lawson, Jenny, 1979- Paperback, 2012Available View detailsView details for Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Paperback, Available Furiously Happy Furiously Happy a Funny Book About Horrible ThingsLawson, Jenny, 1973-Lawson, Jenny, 1973- Book, 2015Available View detailsView details for Furiously Happy, Book, Available Allie Brosh is the strange and wonderful creator of the online comic Hyperbole and A Half. After a seven-year hiatus, she returned with her graphic memoir Solutions and Other Problems. The book manages to oscillate both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply emotional, sometimes within a single page, as she experiences the absurdities of adult life while managing the grief of a divorce and the loss of a family member.  Hyperbole and a Half Hyperbole and a Half Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That HappenedBrosh, Allie,Brosh, Allie, Paperback, 2013Available View detailsView details for Hyperbole and A Half, Paperback, Available Solutions and Other Problems Solutions and Other Problems Brosh, Allie,Brosh, Allie, Book, 2020Available View detailsView details for Solutions and Other Problems, Book, Available I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom, creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is a memoir in essays about her career in show business and struggles with OCD and depression. Similar to Jenny Lawson, her stories can be incredibly funny and painfully honest about what it's like to live in her head. Anyone who was ever an awkward theatre kid will find this book all too relatable at times. I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are Bloom, Rachel, 1987-Bloom, Rachel, 1987- Book, 2020Available View detailsView details for I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, Book, Available Noelle Stevenson has had an incredible career, most notably as the author of Nimona and Lumberjanes, nominee for the National Book Award and showrunner for the Netflix reboot of She-Ra. Oh, and they're not even thirty yet. The Fire Never Goes Out is their graphic memoir about what it's like to burn that brightly at such a young age while coming to terms with their sexuality, gender identity, and bipolar disorder. Nimona Nimona Stevenson, Noelle,Stevenson, Noelle, Paperback, 2015Available View detailsView details for Nimona, Paperback, Available Lumberjanes. Volume One, Beware the Kitten Holy Lumberjanes. Volume One, Beware the Kitten Holy Stevenson, Noelle,Stevenson, Noelle, Paperback, 2015Available View detailsView details for Lumberjanes, Paperback, Available The Fire Never Goes Out The Fire Never Goes Out a Memoir in PicturesStevenson, Noelle,Stevenson, Noelle, Book, 2020Available View detailsView details for The Fire Never Goes Out, Book, Available This press release was produced by the Chicago Public Library-blog. The views expressed here are the author's own.