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Overview
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year.
But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness after loss “Chapter 2”—the continuation of something else. Today, Nora is remarried and mothers four children aged 16 months to 16 years. While her new circumstances bring her extraordinary joy, they are also tinged with sadness over the loved ones she’s lost.
Life has made Nora a reluctant expert in hard conversations. On her wildly popular podcast, she talks about painful experiences we inevitably face, and exposes the absurdity of the question “how are you?” that people often ask when we’re coping with the aftermath of emotional catastrophe. She knows intimately that when your life falls apart, there’s a mad rush to be okay—to find a silver lining, to get to the happy ending. In this, her second memoir, Nora offers a tragicomic exploration of the tension between finding happiness and holding space for the unhappy experiences that have shaped us.
No Happy Endings is a book for people living life after life has fallen apart. It’s a book for people who know that they’re moving forward, not moving on. It’s a book for people who know life isn’t always happy, but it isn’t the end: there will be unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy. As Nora reminds us, there will be no happy endings—but there will be new beginnings.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982609214 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 03/26/2019 |
| Edition description: | Library Edition |
| Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Nora McInerny is the author of It’s Okay to Laugh and No Happy Endings, the host of the Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast, co-founder of the Hot Young Windows Club, and the founder of the nonprofit Still Kickin. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 How to Have a Total Breakdown 7
Chapter 2 You Need Therapy 11
Chapter 3 Don't Should Yourself 19
Chapter 4 I Can't Even 27
Chapter 5 Arranged 33
Chapter 6 Baggage 43
Chapter 7 Finders Keepers 51
Chapter 8 In Between 59
Chapter 9 Ready or Not 67
Chapter 10 Smile 77
Chapter 11 Sophie's Hot Dad 85
Chapter 12 The Gift 95
Chapter 13 Too Soon 103
Chapter 14 Not That Kind of Christian 111
Chapter 15 Flip the Nuggets 119
Chapter 16 Meet the Parents (All of Them) 127
Chapter 17 In the Darkness 135
Chapter 18 Oops 141
Chapter 19 Sad Nora and the Secret Baby 147
Chapter 20 Memorial Day 155
Chapter 21 Armless 167
Chapter 22 Should I Marry a Boy with a Brain Tumor? 177
Chapter 23 Feeling Myself 183
Chapter 24 Options 189
Chapter 25 All My Children 191
Chapter 26 Sad and Lucky 197
Chapter 27 Dear 203
Chapter 28 Dear Ralphie 205
Chapter 29 Dear Baby 211
Chapter 30 Dear Sophie 215
Chapter 31 Dear Ian 221
Chapter 32 Feminist Agenda 225
Chapter 33 Big, Gross, Angry Feminist 229
Chapter 34 Destroy the Patriarchy After You Propose to Me 233
Chapter 35 What I've Learned from Arguing on the Internet 241
Chapter 36 Don't Read the Comments 243
Chapter 37 35 249
Chapter 38 Greatness and Goodness 255
Chapter 39 She Persisted 261
Chapter 40 Yes, And 265
Acknowledgements 271