Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

Mooney, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1250190169 / ISBN 13: 9781250190161

Published by Henry Holt and Co., 2019

About this Item

A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. Stated 1st edition with complete number line starting with 1. Signed (signature only) by the author on the title page. DJ has some minor general wear. Book store signed edition sticker on the front cover. 8vo; 256 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250190169
• ISBN 13: 9781250190161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED BOOKS
  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH
  • BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

About this title

Synopsis

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed

Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn―individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasn’t the problem―the system and the concept of normal were―saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution.

A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two decades. Now he’s ready to share what he’s learned from parents, educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful, and utterly inspiring―and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world―this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.

About the Author

Jonathan Mooney’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, HBO, NPR, ABC News, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and he continues to speak across the nation about neurological and physical diversity, inspiring those who live with differences and advocating for change. He is the author of The Short Bus and Learning Outside the Lines.