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This Is Happy

door Camilla Gibb

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'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or possibility of the opposite can be what gives an experience its meaning. At its simplest, that is a story." --Camilla Gibb, This Is Happy      In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, bestselling author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty.      Raw and unflinching, intelligent and humane, This Is Happy asks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday.… (meer)
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"This is boring" is, unfortunately, what I thought much of the time while reading this book. Even though it is first person, there's more telling than showing in the writing and it feels detached. Strange, because it is quite personal and raw and tragic, but even when the verb tense shifts from past to present it didn't feel any more real to me. Perhaps I'm not broken enough to relate to the experiences in this book. Perhaps someone who has had their own struggles with mental health and loneliness can find something profound to hold on to from this perspective, but I just did not connect.
I'd recommend [a: Janette Walls] instead. Or [b: Adult Onset|21494400|Adult Onset|Ann-Marie MacDonald|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1402625056s/21494400.jpg|19098579] by Ann-Marie MacDonald. ( )
  LDVoorberg | Dec 3, 2017 |
Camilla Gibb is certainly not a newcomer in the Canadian Literary scene. This however, has to be by far her most sensitive book. In this, her memoir, she deals with subjects like Mental Illness and Sexual Orientation; but she does it so naturally that we just go on reading without passing judgement. The characters share their feelings and raw emotion and the story is one of love, hurt, and family. Above all, Gibb gives the reader hope when she wonders if "hope is simply the human word for the animal impulse in us to survive." ( )
  Writermala | Apr 9, 2016 |
While this gut-wrenching memoir ends with the pronouncement “this is happy”, the story might better have been called “a tiny prick of light,” as for much of Gibb’s life this is all she has to hold on to. Unrelenting struggles with mental health and feelings of being overwhelmed by the cumulative effects of grief and loss, have tainted all her life’s experiences. In the end it is the writing that saves Gibb. She acknowledges the cathartic power of writing to give meaning and perspective to one’s life. Hearing Gibb reading from this book and describing her life today, she does seem happy within the family she has created, so maybe the title is apt after all. ( )
  Lindsay_W | Sep 20, 2015 |
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'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or possibility of the opposite can be what gives an experience its meaning. At its simplest, that is a story." --Camilla Gibb, This Is Happy      In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, bestselling author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty.      Raw and unflinching, intelligent and humane, This Is Happy asks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday.

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