Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 2, 2012

Jeanette Winterson talks about her memoir about her life’s work to find happiness. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? recounts her journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.

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