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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.
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"This book was amazing. I didn't loose my husband and need to rebuild my life. I like so many others lost so many little things along the way to almost fifty and was having a particularly hard time with some recent losses. The kind where they are still here but not in your life and everyone blames you while you are stuck with the hurt feelings that you didn't create solely by yourself and no where to put them. I had followed Nora's instagram for awhile and was certain this book would offer me some new perspectives and needed inspiration. It did not disappoint. The lessons she has learned and the way she moves in her life can be applied to any situation. Read this, read all her books: past, present and future."
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No Happy Endings Nora McInerny 9781982609221 Books Reviews
- This book was amazing. I didn't loose my husband and need to rebuild my life. I like so many others lost so many little things along the way to almost fifty and was having a particularly hard time with some recent losses. The kind where they are still here but not in your life and everyone blames you while you are stuck with the hurt feelings that you didn't create solely by yourself and no where to put them. I had followed Nora's instagram for awhile and was certain this book would offer me some new perspectives and needed inspiration. It did not disappoint. The lessons she has learned and the way she moves in her life can be applied to any situation. Read this, read all her books past, present and future.
- First, I have to say that I "read" the audio version of No Happy Endings and I highly recommend that version. Nora has a fabulous, expressive voice and it is so much better listening to memoirs that are read by the author themselves, because you pick up on nuances that you may miss if you are reading the book yourself.
That said, this book is wonderful. Nora's situation is truly unique. But the stories that she tells about her situation, and the events that led up to her current situation, provide lessons that are valuable for every single one of us. I laughed out loud - literally - at several points during the book. I also cried. But mostly, I just took it all in and loved every minute of it.
Highly recommend. - McInerny’s memoir is as wonderful as it is heartbreaking. She tragically loses her first husband to brain cancer and raises their toddler son, then finds unexpected love again and a remarkably blended family. I was struck by three things while reading this book. First, McInerny truly knows that the loss of a beloved spouse can obliterate a planned-for life, but she is able to keep her heart open to possibilities, even amidst her grief. Second, the four children in her newly- formed family will all benefit from her admirable capacity for love and inclusion.
Lastly, the book works best because it is not a “tragedy to triumph†story, but rather a story that makes room for the complexities, complications and contradictions of real life. She is a widow who still loves her deceased husband, and also loves her current husband as well. It is not denying one love in order to experience another, but the ability to be genuinely grateful for both. This is one of the few books that attempts to explain how love and grief can exist simultaneously, by embracing and honoring the past and enjoying and appreciating the present. McInerny’s book is a worthwhile read, filled with hard-won wisdom, pain, humor and joy. - I tore through this book in one sitting! As usual, Nora's writing is touching, heartbreaking, hilarious, and REAL. Her gift of shining a light on the hard things that we would rather ignore is invaluable, especially at this moment when honesty and vulnerability so often loses out to the packaged and polished images bombarding us day in and out. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone suffering from the condition of being a human being.
- Most spiritually cathartic cry I may have ever had to date (Not a single ounce of ironic hyperbole). Nora transcends language to help us relate on the most basic level of common existence our humanity. I *HIGHLY* suggest listening on audio--Nora's story should be heard in NORA'S voice, with NORA'S vocal nuances and subtly (/endearingly) noted tinges of Minneapolis. No Happy Endings is one GIANT (very relevant, very crucial, very precious) stick of dynamite for us ALL to be lit up by in 2019! (And hopefully long after we've ALL drifted away in our own versions of Rum River. ) <3 )
And Nora,
Because you'll probably never read this ('cause, to your credit, you did dedicate an entire chapter to clearly laying out how you DON'T read the comments)... I'll go ahead and prattle on just a "tad" bit inapprooooopriately longer than any reasonably, average-minded person should via review, and say Thank you. Your willingness to share your life has piqued a new rhythm for the pulse of my blood that beats drums through my veins. And even though you don't need my approval or feedback or recommendation of your memoir because it is YOUR LIFE! --(DUH!)-- you ARE a game-changer to THIS one mama, hundreds of miles away, to whom you have never met. THIS one mama who hears your voice, literally. And emotionally... and politically... and parentally... and morally... and sexually... and femininely. And in so many of the ways your reaction to your life challenges us to examine the status quo, and to be grateful for it. Thank you for graciously inviting whoever will listen into your living room, and all of the other rooms in your heart. And into our own hearts. Your story is told with a voice that is strong *AND* (and maybe here's part of MY "and") a voice that is evident of ALL of the emotions. Not only just power and might and muscle. Well, because, that's what women are capable of doing.
In MY best Oprah-in-a-red-suit-holding-a-microphone meme voice, also mixed with your own healing and holy and hilarious, story-telling, podcast-worthy/everything-worthy voice
I heard you.
I hear you.
I'm still listening.
Thank you. - I’m a huge fan of Nora’s....her writing. Her podcast. Her humor. She has the ability to make me laugh while crying. I listened to the whole thing in a day. So glad she narrated!
- Want to laugh and cry? This book will get you with both. Nora is so funny. Especially for someone who has been to literal fiery depressing hell and back. Maybe the best part is how she finds the good and the absurd in what a bumpy ass ride like can be.
- I'm not sure how Nora does it, but she always manages to make me laugh and cry within minutes of each other. She's a master at holding two things - grief and joy - at the same time and not hiding it. She's not shy about how she feels, good and bad, and this unflinching honesty ends up opening up space between her and the reader in a way that not many other authors manage to do. Anyone who has loved and lost (which IS/WILL BE all of us) should read this book.
