These offbeat, jumbled, and heart-rending essays-decidedly blog-like in their telling and execution-give Furiously Happy a jagged texture which reflects the theme of brokenness present throughout the book. Many of the struggles and recollections recounted here are informed by Lawson’s notedly eccentric family (her father, a taxidermist, once sent her to school with a flock of turkeys her mother often dressed Lawson and her sister in getups inspired by The Little House on the Prairie). In Lawson’s own words, Furiously Happy is “a funny book about living with mental illness.” Structurally, it’s a collection of emotional confessions and odd anecdotes, the latter of which often feature animals (such as Lawson’s tale about traveling to Australia to hug a koala). Having battled anxiety, “high-functioning” depression, and numerous other disorders for most of her life, Lawson wrote Furiously Happy to examine those experiences and share how they drove her to live life to the fullest, a nod to the book’s title. Whereas Lawson’s first book focused on her “functionally dysfunctional family,” Furiously Happy, her second, explores her challenges with mental illness, balancing humor and levity in equal measure. Lawson is a writer and journalist who is most well known for her award-winning blog, The Bloggess.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a humorous memoir written by blogger Jenny Lawson, published in September 2015 by Flatiron Books.
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