Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

By: Jenny Lawson

Narrated by: Jenny Lawson

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel.... Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." (AudioFile magazine, Earphones Award winner)

From the number one New York Times best-selling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable audiobook filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.

*This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus chapter*

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.

With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor - the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball - is present throughout.

A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Jenny Lawson (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

USA Today Best Books of the Year, 2021

Best Yet!

Do yourself a favor and get it. you will laugh and cry. thank you Jenny for your best yet!

know that you are not alone.

As with her other two books, you will laugh, you may cry, you will hopefully nod along knowingly. But most of all, if you've ever felt depression anchoring you down or the pain and frustration of anxiety or panic, you will close the book and take a deep breath feeling like you had a great heart to heart with a close friend, and you will know that you are not alone.

Can't Go Wrong with a Jenny Lawson Book

What the heading says. Also this review has to be at least fifteen words, so...

Jenny is my spirit animal!!

I couldn't stop laughing at certain parts & wanted to give her a covid approved distance hug for others. But mostly ... if you know Jenny's books this is probably already in your must reads.

Her voice, as an author, the way she speaks, rambles, jumps around when telling a story is how my brain.. works! and she celebrates it! I don't struggle with all of the issues she has had to, and continues to daily.... but her message... of finding the joy in the chaos speaks to my chaotic mind. Her amazingly quirky humor is a mirror of my own. Do you know that feeling where someone... whom you've never met... just gets you? I do.

Jenny Lawson is my spirit animal. (Can a person be your spirit animal??)

a balance of laughter and realness

i love this author and this book didn't disappoint. i laughed so hard it was probably unsafe for me to be driving at the time since i couldn't see through the tears. the seriousness of some of the chapters were important as well to remember we're not alone in our struggles and that not everything is fun and games. for those who say they're not a fan of her voice/ speech cadence, i would say, i think i remember thinking that on the first book as well. But now when i turn on her books, it's like wrapping up in an old family blanket. even if there are some scratchy spots, it is warm and comforting and filled with happy memories of joyful times.

We’re all broken, and it’s okay

The way Jenny normalizes mental health struggles, and shows that there is a path through is amazing. She does it with humor, and in a way that doesn’t feel like an in-your-face self help book, and that makes it a palatable form of inspiration. Also, it makes me cackle like a crazy person in public spaces and that... is beautiful!

Jenny is the best!

Jenny’s upfront honest look on the world is refreshing. Her delivery of her own words, stories, truths and musings is fantastic. I have laughed aloud in the wrong places while listening to her books- nothing like the people in the grocery store avoiding the cackling lady on aisle 4- even though she cannot reach that box on the top shelf that she needs. Thank our blue tooth ear buds for making me look like I might need to be accompanied in public.

Wonderful as always!

Love how she makes mental health battles relatable! All Jenny's Audiobooks rock! Kept me on the edge of my seat!

I snot-cry-laughed!!!

It may be her fourth book (fuck you...yes a coloring book counts...it had words didn’t it!) but it is every bit as mind boggling funny, sad, confusing, high-Larry-us as any of those that can e before! When the author start talking about whether you are laughing like a crazy person...or...not; and you are because silver bullet...you know you are your place. I have to wonder if Jenny’s obviously forthcoming Covid confinement book will hit so close to home for millions of new readers, that they will discovery their own adorable personal demon monsters. They can pull them out in public and say lol at this brand of crazy...isn’t is awesome! Fuck yeah it’s awesome!

Can We Be Friends?

I love Jenny’s books! At times it feels like she is narrating your own experiences with mental health as well as the weird things she does. I sit there and think oh God I’m not the only one who thinks these weird things and blurts them out! It’s like she created a friend group for all of us weird souls!