Broken (in the best possible way) - Jenny Lawson

Broken (in the best possible way)

By Jenny Lawson

  • Release Date: 2021-04-06
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 144 Ratings

Description

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.


As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.

With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor—the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball—is present throughout.

A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.

Includes Photographs and Illustrations

Reviews

  • Profoundly Real

    5
    By copper9lives
    Dear Jenny: you capture the wondrous absurdity of life and living so perfectly, and by perfect I mean broken and organic and growing and healing and stubbornly persisting and finding the way to go on no matter what. You make my broken bits feel acceptable and even worth nurturing and celebrating, as I stumble toward the light. And you make me laugh giant belly laughs in terrible places, which feels like Winning Life. High-fives for All The Win. I love you.
  • 3rd times the charm!

    5
    By 2RaysintheSun
    The third book touches you emotionally and turns you around to spitting out water that your laughing so hard. Jenny tells of the struggles and hardships of depression, it’s ugly lies but the beauty that can still be found when you resurface.
  • Broken

    5
    By louise joseph, weegie pi
    If I was to write my own stories about myself, it would resemble Broken in many ways. I’m an addict with mental illness. Today I’m not gonna do meth...again, because I did it around six this morning and slept a couple of hours and had to deal with my dogs explosive diarrhea. Still high and desperately wanting to come back down. It’s evening now. Then tomorrow will be my first day of sobriety. I’m so tired of being broken. Excellent book. I’ve bought copies for a few people. It’s my life too
  • Excellent

    5
    By Dbtinnon
    I just got this book yesterday I can just read it all day it is funny so it makes me u laugh sometimes and an enjoyable read . Definitely worth you’re money