Lopsided: Library Edition

Norton, Meredith

ISBN 10: 143327633X ISBN 13: 9781433276330

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton displays the razor-sharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles her experience, from the first appearance of her bizarre symptoms while she was living in Paris to moving to California to live with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Along with hilarious and harrowing portrait of her treatments, she offers equally amusing memories of her offbeat life, rants about well-meaning family and friends, and rails against self-pity. Funny, irreverent, and down-to-earth, Norton's memoir brings a refreshing burst of attitude to a difficult experience she refuses to be intimidated by.

About this title

About the Author

Meredith Norton has traveled extensively and resided for several years in Europe. She lives with her son in Oakland, California.

Review

“...a truly elegant memoir...Norton is terrific at narrating the physical slapstick of battling this disease. But She’s even better on the arrogance and pretense the cancer reveals...she’s fresh and adorable, and you hope she sticks round to produce at least another dozen surly, lovely books.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine

“By including touches of wit and sarcasm, Norton strikes a successful balance between light and heavy, keeping her audience consistently engaged.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“If you seek to be moved — to laughter, that is — look no further than newbie Meredith Norton’s memoir, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting. Her victimless approach doesn’t sugarcoat the experience but rather brings to light hilarious universals (e.g., constant Lance Armstrong mentions from friends and family).”
—Daily Candy

“Lopsided is fantastic. I read it in one sitting, and it completely swallowed me up. For one entire day, a girl I don’t know and never met became my best friend, and I have not been able to stop thinking about her since. LOPSIDED is powerful, funny, courageous, and moving, but most of all, it is human.”
—Laurie Notaro, author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club

“...wise, humorous memoir...Her disarming frankness renders the book less a cancer survival guide and more a lovably unfiltered e-mail from a hilarious friend. There has not been a funnier, more honest cancer account in recent memory.”
—People

“I hope to encounter this clear, incisive, highly amusing voice again. Soon.”
—Orlando Sentinel

“Norton is one plucky dame, and she displays a sharp eye for the human condition...[she]calls herself a storyteller, and the tale she has crafted from a life-altering event is indeed hard to put down”
—Kirkus Reviews

“[Lopsided] crackle[s] with heartfelt intensity and irreverence.”
—Booklist

“Her tone may be facetious, her language colorful, and her distractions gritty (readers will gasp at the taxidermy activities of a former neighbor), but her view of cancer (funny and irreverent) and her place in the world (she found herself “waiting for a miracle. Not a miracle to save my life, but the miracle to make something of it”) will make readers stand up and cheer. Highly recommended...”
—Library Journal

“Meredith Norton gives marvelous new meaning to the phrase ‘a sick sense of humor.’ And her lippy, lovable, sharp-shooting story will find your heartstrings by way of your funny bone. This isn’t Chicken Soup for the soul; it’s Tabasco. Fans of David Sedaris should fall to their knees and worship this book. LOPSIDED is, hands down, the best new memoir that I’ve read in ages.”
— Koren Zailckas, author of Smashed

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143327633X
• ISBN 13: 9781433276330
• Binding: Preloaded Digital Audio Player