Notes From the Mothership The Naked Invisibles - Hardcover

Adrienne Zurub

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979286301 ISBN 13: 9780979286308

Publisher: Chase & Wunderlick Publishers, LLC, 2008

Synopsis

Notes is the Shawshank Redemption of this multi-faceted, grown woman, registered nurse, subject not object, one, Adrienne Zurub! (Though not centered on any murderous wrongdoing! Intent? Well...Maybe) Everything that is important is invisible is a quote within the book that buttresses the impetus and prevailing themes within this book and its stories. Themes of invisibility, self-negation, obsession, and sexism amongst others (patient advocacy, stand up comedy, theater, etc.) are played out, and evolved in the axis of cardiothoracic surgery, at a world renowned open heart facility. Essentially and philosophically we choose our respective battlegrounds. It is no coincidence, maybe divine intervention, or fate if you will, that Ms. Zurub plays out her existential search for self, identity, and the definition of herself in her worlds, and others, in a surgical setting; whereby the diseased and the cancerous are excised routinely, and arteries are bypassed. Notes effectively parallels the authors mission in excising layers of self doubt, perceptions of inferiority, invisibility, and longing. Notes gratefully distances itself from the vertiginous television sitcom vision of OR s, surgeons, nurses. Within this insular environment where the masking procedure is ritualistically performed to protect oneself, this masking also serves as the book demonstrates with loud and quiet attention, to allow its denizens to hide from the foibles and weaknesses of themselves, Ms. Zurub included. The authors ability to read people, an innate talent she possessed as a child is heighten in this covert setting. The journey of Adrienne Zurub suggests a more urbane provenance than her as an eleven year-old grrl with incredible ambition, the oldest of nine children, in a small junk room, in a modest home on a village of a street in Cleveland, Ohio. As this precocious child, she uses collages, hung on the wall at the end of her bed, to bring the disparate elements of her life together as well as serving as a talisman to her future selves. You re too stupid to forage for food! Did the nerve gas get to you!! These are expressions you would expect to hear on dirty urban streets, yet these insults and others marked the environment that Adrienne Zurub, as a registered nurse on the prestigious Cleveland Clinic open heart team, heard sprinkled freely in regards to her nursing colleagues (both male and female), residents, and anyone who drew the wrath of angry surgeons! Yet, this book is not about angry surgeons. 'Notes' multi-dimensional, multi-functional force is that it delivers insider patient information and advice in its patient advocacy role. It inspires with poignant patient stories and stories of the incredibly average persons who make up this accomplished team. And, Notes the long awaited ,baby of Adrienne Zurub, is a revealing nonfiction work detailing with wit, poignancy and stark attention her very personal search for identity, validation, and self within the context of her world and this environment. The author s seeking, longing, and connections are most human, and we as readers are privy to the deeply personal without the stench of voyeurism. It becomes safe shared learning from the vantage point of close proximity. 'Notes' utilizes the expressions of spoken word pOetry, stand up comedy, and wrenching storytelling, to afford the reader a ride into a world of pathos, collecting the talismans of relationships along those journeys. The spoken word format adds a staccato rhythm to the work and augments the Faulknerian stream of consciousness of the book. We learn of the lowliness of...

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'Notes From the Mothership The Naked Invisibles' coalesces the seemingly disparate elements of Ms.Zurub's existential search for identity, and self with a poetic poignancy afforded only by a life lived fully, attentively and mostly unguarded. This book is about identity, longing, and the souvenir of relationships and experiences that Ms. Zurub has absorbed thus creating the entity of herself; therefore touching others. It is not just an autobiography! It is a poetic and sometimes tragic look at life in general. The pathos of the OR as she describes it is a touching look at life and death from the vantage point of close proximity. Just as the author seeks out other avenues for her self expression and ways to escape the morass of the life and death situations in a cardiac OR, the book takes you on a whirl-wind tour de force of personal experiences and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the world of stand up comedy. It's a Faulkernerian stream of consciousness that allows the reader entre into the mind and great heart--of this remarkable woman. This incredible book reveals the prolific and hardy pen of a woman to be reckoned with, one Adrienne Zurub.

About the Author

Adrienne Zurub aka Stand Up comedian, UBU (you be YOU!) Zurub is an Author/ Actor/Comedian/Speaker/Writer/Spoken Word POeT and Registered Nurse. UBU has performed stand up at The Hollywood Improv-Melrose, for Industry at the California Comedy Conference, at Stand Up New York, Gotham s Comedy Club, The New York Comedy Club, Carolines, Don t Tell Mama, The Cleveland Improv, and numerous venues (also known as hell holes) in between both coasts. Her accomplishments in theater include writing and performing Solo Performance pieces at Cleveland Public Theater; performing at the historical Karamu Theater in Arenafest. She performed in The Manhattan Monologue Slam in New York City. Her film work includes appearing in Jason Tomaric s films, The World without US and The Overcoat. As well as, the movie, The Lords of Praxton by Producer-Director, Peter Fields; and a film by British Director Brendon Connelly entitled Grey Goo Adrienne is featured in Attrition an Independent motion picture that premiered at The New York Film Festival and the Ohio Film Festival as well. Adrienne was one of three finalists for Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights 2006. Offically, she was declared, ...one of the funniest women in America in Judy Brown s book, She s So Funny, a compilation of the best jokes from women comedians, in which she is published. Adrienne participated in Tellabration,the National Storytelling Event, where her rich stories and poetry were described as, Great! Exuberant! Spirited! Adrienne is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSAOhio Chapter), Toastmasters and AORN. She is a soror of AKA Sorority, Inc. Adrienne trained at the American Comedy Institute with Stephen Rosenfield in New York City. She also trained in improvisation at Second City; with Judy Carter Comedy Workshops in New York and California; and Solo Performance workshops at Cleveland Public Theater with noted playwright Sarah Morton. She has taken workshops in California with: Tracy Newman, a writer for the show, The World According to Jim ; the actor Tim Bagley of Will and Grace and with Rick Overton, a Los Angeles based actor/comedian. Her acting and scene study coach is the profound and prolific Victor D Altorio, of Los Angeles. Her most meaningful performances have been in the Cardiac ORs at Cleveland Clinic for patients and colleagues. Her interests are sleeping, blogging, world travel, reading, HGTV, quietly judging others, and waiting for something magical to happen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chase & Wunderlick Publishers, LLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979286301
• ISBN 13: 9780979286308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Jim Hamilton, Laurel Durrett
• Illustrator: Na