From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] Comedian Tig Nataro relates her most hellacious year in this slim memoir which covers much of Nataro’s popular (Grammy nominated) Largo performance where she announced to fans that she had cancer. Nataro fans will not find much new in the retelling of Nataro’s trifecta of disastrous events befalling her in 2012 which began with her life threatening C. Diff infection, her mother’s death from a freak fall, and her romantic breakup. Four months later, still recovering from C. Diff and grieving her mother, Nataro receives the devastating diagnosis of invasive breast cancer and must undergo a bilateral mastectomy. Nataro’s all-consuming grief over her Mother’s death is a moving tribute to an unconventional, free-spirited parent who was also self-absorbed and often absent.
Ultimately Tig’s message can be summed up in her own words: “The other scary beauty of life, which I probably should have expected to discover in all of this, was how heightened circumstances, such as overlapping tragedy and success, sharpens your vision and shortens your patience for baloney and hogwash.” Nataro’s wry humor and honesty in the face of overwhelming pain make this memoir well worth the reading for all. Highly recommended.