But like many readers and many of her fans, I also felt recognition and an echo of some of her experiences within myself – I felt empathy. There is no doubt that these problems are serious, real and chronic.
I did laugh, but more than laugh, I was deeply touched by her humanity, her bravery. I would’ve liked to say I laughed often and hard, like with her previous books. And of course, having a sense of humour definitely helps. She deals with things as best she can and manages to find the upside to some aspects, such as a new course of treatments that has made things better. She baldly states what is happening to her, and what her health status is. Lawson does not “suffer from” these conditions, in the sense that her life is ruined by them, and she laments her predicament. illustrated edition, April 6, 2021, hardcover, 304 pp.) The funny side of adversity May 31, 2021īroken (in the best possible way), by Jenny Lawson (Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Another time, her ankle got so big that it looked as if she were wearing a ‘single nude leg-warmer stuffed with apples.’ Often, flare-ups leave her bedridden or send her rushing to the emergency room she has joked that she wishes the condition had a sexier name, like ‘the Midnight Death’ or ‘Impending Vampirism.’ It is a painful, incurable autoimmune disorder that affects everything from her shoe size (it fluctuates) to the way she experiences rain (her symptoms worsen).” Emily McCullar, The Rise (and Occasional Dips Into Despair!) of Jenny Lawson, in Texas Monthly, May 2021, rtrvd.
Once, it made her finger swell up like a Ball Park hot dog.
“Anyone who has read Jenny Lawson’s work knows that the 47-year-old writer suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. That was a novel, though: Broken is a memoir, and the funny parts – which are typically Lawson and outrageous, self-deprecating and vividly imaginative – are interspersed with diary-like chapters about the medical conditions which she has to deal with. Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People provided the reader with a sense of identification with the anxious people in his novel, and a sense of normalcy by comparison.
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