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Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Neither too serious nor too saccharine, Meredith Norton displays the razor-sharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles every step of her experience, from the first appearance of her bizarre symptoms while she was living in Paris to having to moving back home to California to live with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Alongside the hilarious and harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories of her offbeat life, ranting about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrong's cancer survival book offered by well-meaning family and friends and railing against self-pity and victimhood. Irreverent, down-to-earth, and incredibly funny, Norton's memoir brings a refreshing burst of attitude to a difficult experience she refuses to be intimidated by.
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Soichiro Nakade
reviewed Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting on August 26, 2011
Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
I have weird feelings on this memoir. I have an academic interest in and addiction to women's disease narratives. I also love books that are funny. This book is both, to the point that I had to stop the audio book because I was laughing too much to listen well. For the first five CDs, the book was a 5/5 star kind of book. Then the last CD came along and she said something about a bully from her childhood being a "fourteen year old bulldyke" and I was like wait, what?
Yeah. I don't know whether I should be offended by this book or not, basically. I'm a lesbian; the author is either heterosexual or bisexual with a male partner for the entire book. Norton is African-American, and she speaks bluntly about her experiences with race and as a part of a biracial marriage, including her own internalized racism. And yet I draw the line here, at 'bulldyke'? Is that a fair line for me to draw? I don't know.
Anyway. That distracted me from the last parts of the book, which is sad, because "maybe there's no message (to cancer), maybe it just sucks" is one of the wisest things I've heard any memoir say.
The bit with the woman using taxidermy as a mice repellant is still freaking hysterical, though.
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