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No Happy Endings
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Nora McInerny
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 Two” - 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 an audiobook for people living life after life has fallen apart. It’s an audiobook for people who know they’re moving forward, not moving on. It’s an audiobook 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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- Sarah Wenger
- 2021-08-07
I like this woman
Newish listener of the TTFA podcast, and I have to say I like the authors style. I whole heartedly love what she has to say about women, parenting and marriage. An easy listen, full of personality, good narrative voice, and a full story that is truly the stuff of life.
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- Jackie B.
- 2019-04-02
Loved this book!
I read Nora McInerny's first book in paper form (er, as a book?) & struggled with the bouncing around in the narrative, which was interesting as I loved other memoirs that didn't follow a timeline (think Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinga's Dirty River or Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water).
Listening to the audiobook version was the best decision for me. As a fan of TTFA, I absolutely adored having the author tell me stories from her life. She did a great job narrating and I loved it! Thank you for sharing and telling the stories in this book!
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- Lauren Whitburn
- 2019-05-12
Highly Recommend
Loved it from start to finish, I laughed, I cried and I'm definitely going to be listening to it again!
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- Danielle
- 2022-08-04
Interesting until the wokeness is omnipresent
I loved the book. Nora is really interesting to listen to, and her story and lessons are super interesting to listen to.
I was a little annoyed with the feminist touch here and there, but it wasn't so bad.
Until I reached the last HOUR AND A HALF that is only, only about feminism and wokeness. Out of 8 hours. I could understand if it had any decent point with the book, but it doesn't. I just feel I've been dragged into a super interesting story just to get trapped into chapters and chapters are feminisms, how I am a bad person for being white and how men are stupid and bad.
And no, I am not an angry, insecure white men like Nora implies. I am a grown women who does not adhere to today's wokeness and is soooo tired of having it shoved into my throat everywhere I look.
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