¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?

Why be happy when you can be normal? Mrs. Winterson asked her daughter Jeanette when she, just turned sixteen, confessed to having fallen in love with another girl. Strange question, but little more could be expected from a woman who had adopted a girl to make her an ally in her religious mission, and instead had to deal with a strange being who cried out for her portion. of happiness from her Armed with two sets of false teeth and a pistol hidden under the kitchen towels, Mrs. Winterson did her best to discipline Jeanette: at home books were forbidden, friendships were frowned upon, kisses and hugs were extravagant gestures, and any offense was punished with whole nights in the open, but it was useless. That red-haired girl who seemed to be the daughter of the devil himself rebelled, seeking pleasure in the skin of other women and finding novels and poems in the neighborhood library that would help her grow. This and much more is what these exceptional pages offer, where joy and rage go hand in hand: a memoir destined to become a classic of contemporary literature.