Furiously Happy:
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
For most of my life I’ve battled depression, anxiety and a host of other disorders, but I wrote this book less as a manual on how-to-survive-mental-illness and more of a compendium on how-to-thrive-in-spite-of-your-brain-being-a-real-bastard. Some of it is very serious and some of it is very funny, but I hope you’ll find that all of it is honest, baffling and relatable in ways that may make you question your own sanity.
Some people have called this my “magnum opus”. I don’t know what that means but it sounds very 80’s, and I like Magnum and Opus so I’m taking it as a compliment. To clarify, there are no mustachioed detectives or cartoon penguins in this book but there are other things, such as:
- The time I lost both my arms in a sleeping accident
- The neighborhood swans that tried to eat me
- The day Australia refused to let me get Chlamydia even though I was wearing a protective koala costume
- Advice on how to survive the zombie apocalypse, the airport, and the zombie apocalypse at the airport
- Completely inappropriate things I’ve blurted out to fill awkward silences at my psychiatrist’s office.
But in all of these odd stories – the darkly serious and the strangely baffling – I go back to a simple truth I learned from The Breakfast Club. “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.” I agree completely. Except go back and scratch out the word “hiding”.
Be bizarre. Be weird. Be proud of the uniquely beautiful way that you are broken.
Be furiously happy.
Furiously Happy is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. I blame you for this. You should order one for everyone in your family so that they better understand you. Or so everyone thinks you’re very sane and logical by comparison.
If you want a signed copy you can order one from my book store, Nowhere Bookshop. Just tell me what you want me to write when you order.
It’s also available at the following places:
- Bookshop
- Amazon
- Amazon Canada
- Barnes & Noble
- Books-A-Million
- iBooks
- IndieBound
- Indigo
- Powell’s
- Target
- Audible
- Amazon UK
- Waterstones
The tour is over but I’ll be back next year with another one. More soon.
