


Throughout the book, Turner provides inspirational advice and spiritual tools for the reader's self-empowerment and fulfillment, and she shares how her favorite Buddhist principles helped her overcome poverty, prejudice, illness, loss, and other personal and professional challenges. The book's eight chapters roughly coincide with the eight decades of Turner's life. Happiness Becomes You contains eight chapters, plus an introduction and afterword, that span the entirety of Turner's life, beginning with stories about her hometown before her birth, then continues through the adversities she faced in her life and career as she worked her way up to eventually become a world-class performer, and concluding with stories about the author's daily life at the time of the book's completion when she was eighty years of age in 2020. As of February 2022, the book has been published in 44 countries and 16 foreign-language editions including Spanish, French, Italian, Finnish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedish. It was published in North America by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, by Droemer Knaur in Germany, and in the UK and Commonwealth nations by HarperCollins. The book is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. Turner described Happiness Becomes You as a parallel behind-the-scenes story to the HBO documentary film Tina (2021). Turner co-authored the book with American writer Taro Gold. Described by the author as "a very personal book that focuses on the core themes of my life: hope, happiness, and faith," it explores details of Turner's life including how she overcame obstacles to achieve happiness and success, and offers Turner's advice on how readers can realize their own dreams. Happiness Becomes You is a memoir published by singer Tina Turner in 2020. 2020 memoir by Tina Turner Happiness Becomes You
