![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanette is often locked outside of the house and left on the street or sent underground to the family’s claustrophobic coal-hole. Winterson to dole out physical punishments. Winterson, who is obsessed with End Time and the coming of the Apocalypse, emotionally abuses Jeanette and forces Mr. Her mother constantly tells her that “the Devil” led her and her husband to “the wrong crib” when they selected Jeanette at the adoption society. Winterson-a devout Pentecostal Evangelist Christian couple with no children of their own-Jeanette Winterson comes of age in a home deprived of happiness or joy. It’s also a nonfiction parallel to Winterson’s award-winning autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which fictionalized the upbringing described in Why Be Normal When You Can Be Happy?, and which Winterson discusses often.Īfter being adopted at six months old by Mr. ![]() This memoir tells the story of acclaimed writer Jeanette Winterson’s tumultuous, abusive upbringing in a small, working-class town in the north of England. ![]()
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