What readers think of The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman, plus links to write your own review.

I LOVED this book…like a couple others in this listing, it captured my heart. Norman and his mother are such a team, strong, resilient people both of them.

This book goes on my list of all-time Top Ten. I could not stop recommending it to people right after I read it last year. It is tender, heart-warming - without being treacly or saccharine. - and very well-written. Norman will grab your heart.
( Actually I listened to it, something I very rarely do, and the narrator greatly added to my appreciation of this lovely story. I recommend doing so.)

Norman handles his grief in such a sweet preteen way and loves his mother too! The author creates a boy like I wish I’d raised. The premise of the show is so far fetched that it was pure fun to fall in with it wholeheartedly.

My sister, Miriam Boots, passed on the book , The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman, to me and we both loved it! It starts slow, but the characters become so engaging leading up to a can’t put this book down ending. Wow. It truly is a “charming, warm, and uplifting” as the cover says. I thoroughly enjoyed this story.

I knew. Somewhere on the very first page, that this was gonna be one of those books for me. I was not wrong!

Oh, Normie! I love you and all of the wonderful characters radiating from these pages. And a genuinely painted mom, who loves her son.

I cried. Sweet mom tears.

This is a beautiful, wonderfully drawn book, the kind I know from page one.

Thanks, BookBrowse folk, for an ARC to cherish.

"But then I started to feel really bad because I didn't want that to mean I was forgetting about Jax, so I closed my eyes and thought about being happy and being sad and how sometimes there's a million miles between them and other times there's none at all."
? Julietta Henderson, The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

Just what I needed during covid. A book about off beat people having an off beat adventure that ends well.

Loved all the characters. Would like to meet all of them. they were all pretty strong and caring about each other. In their own skewed way.

How can a book simultaneously warm your heart and break your heart at the same time? The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman did just that—and I loved every word. I've never 'met' as charming a protagonist as the title character—you will laugh with him and his mother, Sadie, and cry with them. The writer brings the reader along Norman and his mother Sadie's journey—both of them are grappling with grief, Norman's from the present and Sadie's from the past. Over the course of the book, the two learn that grief need not define their lives; the message is that joy can always be found, even following the depths of sorrow. Part coming of age story, part odyssey, the book will leave you reeling like you've been gut punched, but the journey will have been worth it. There were plenty of laugh-out-loud moments to balance out the melancholy undertones; despite the sad event that occurred in the beginning of the book, the book is ultimately uplifting. This is perhaps one of my favorite books I've read over the past year.

What I an absolute joy of a book. I've loved every character, with all their flaws and personal pains. Norman is the kid that any parent would love with their whole being, scaly psoriasis and all. Sadie, the insecure mom, but loved her son with her all her might. And Leonard, the surrogate father/grandfather who protected and guided them on their quest. I love this kind of life-lesson journey book where very flawed characters find their way and life and love. Highly recommended!