Hello!
I just finished a quick read, I am Just a Person by Tig Notaro.
I first saw Tig on the Ellen Show. She is hilarious and very very dry! She rarely smile, but you laugh so hard! She was doing her book tour and TV show tour at the time, so I thought I would check her book out.
From Amzon:
In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Now, the wildly popular star takes stock of that no good, very bad year—a difficult yet astonishing period in which tragedy turned into absurdity and despair transformed into joy. An inspired combination of the deadpan silliness of her comedy and the open-hearted vulnerability that has emerged in the wake of that dire time, I’m Just a Person is a moving and often hilarious look at this very brave, very funny woman’s journey into the darkness and her thrilling return from it.
You really start to think how much can a person handle and she talks all about how she can’t and doesn’t want to handle it all. Her emotions are raw…fetal position in a car crying, staying in bed for a week after devastating news and so much more that is honestly written about in this book. She does not sugar coat anything or say how blessed she is about so-and-so or I should be happy because I still can, have or it could be worse. She writes how she feels and I believe it is how we all would feel if we were just honest for 30 seconds.
It is written in her “dead pan” voice, but you hear the humor in the story, too (especially when spotting Santa Claus!) I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars. Enjoy!