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His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid who everyone called Happy, often without even knowing his real name. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke.
For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self-destructive and sometimes cruel behavior as he endured two more brain bleeds and a crippling depression. After undergoing brain surgery, he is nursed back to health by his free-spirited artist mother, who once again teaches him to stand on his own.
Alive with unexpected humor and sensuality, Happy is a hypnotic self-portrait of a young man confronting the wreckage of his own body; it is also the deeply moving story of a mother's redemptive and healing powers. Alex Lemon's Technicolor sentences pop and sing as he writes about survival — of the body and of the human spirit.
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Matthew Rasanen
reviewed Happy: A Memoir on January 27, 2010 Happy: A Memoir
I set out to read this all in one gulp, but I realized a little ways in that I was going to have to switch gears and move to smaller doses. Especially when the book moved into material about the brain surgery, the combination of the vividly-rendered scenes with rich language made it better to experience it in smaller intense bursts. The (often) short chapters really packed an emotional wallop, and I needed time to allow each one to land.
On the whole, this was a memoir bursting with life. Humor. Pathos. Pain. All right there in your face. It was also the very real transformation of a person on the page, and a change that isn't fraught with sweeping "and then I realized" type epiphanies. The evolution in consciousness came purely through the way the writer saw the world. It was a startling vision.
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