| Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting | 
 enlarge | Author: Meredith Norton
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0670019283
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196994490092
EAN: 9780670019281
Publication Date: June 12, 2008
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Product Description
A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer
Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrongs cancer survival book pressed on her by well-meaning family and friends.
Alongside the harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories from her offbeat life. We see her childhood time during a somewhat racist ski trip, a family reunion at a Florida alligator farm, and her life in a tree house with a neighbor, who, despite being vegan, hates mice enough to taxidermy them into miniature versions of racecar drivers, Jesus, a UPS delivery man, and Sally Jesse Raphael.
Like David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Nortons razor-sharp wit is at once riotous and excruciating. Lopsided is the remarkable debut of a masterful humorist.
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