It's okay to laugh : (crying is cool, too)

It's okay to laugh (crying is cool, too)

Nora McInerny Purmort

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Subjects
Purmort, Aaron, > -2014.
Purmort, Nora McInerny.
Brain > Cancer > Patients > Biography.
Brain > Cancer > Patients > Family relationships.
Couples.
Published
New York : Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow Publishers [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Nora McInerny Purmort (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062419378
9780062419385
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Lay Off Me, Mary
  • Chapter 2. Now
  • Chapter 3. Stories
  • Chapter 4. Brothers Gotta Hug
  • Chapter 5. Take the Message to Garcia
  • Chapter 6. Where Is My Syllabus?
  • Chapter 7. iPhone Therapy
  • Chapter 8. My Eighties-Sitcom Dad
  • Chapter 9. Family (A Story About Juggalos and Not My Actual Family, Sorry Siblings)
  • Chapter 10. A Boy Is Why I Moved to New York, and a Boy Is Why I Left
  • Chapter 11. How I Met Your Father
  • Chapter 12. Please Let Me Get What I Want
  • Chapter 13. What to Do When the Person You Love Gets Brain Cancer (or Any Cancer)
  • Chapter 14. And Also With You
  • Chapter 15. Sorry You Dated Me
  • Chapter 16. Slut
  • Chapter 17. The Game
  • Chapter 18. My Ex-Boyfriend's Ex-Girlfriend
  • Chapter 19. Who Should You Marry?
  • Chapter 20. The Most Magical Place on Earth
  • Chapter 21. Hot Young Widows Club
  • Chapter 22. A Letter to the Recruiter Who Emailed My Husband a Month After His Death
  • Chapter 23. Life Plans I've Made Since My Husband Died
  • Chapter 24. Quiet, Susan
  • Chapter 25. Madge
  • Chapter 26. It's a Secret, So Hush
  • Chapter 27. Immaculate Conception
  • Chapter 28. Helpful Advice for New Mothers
  • Chapter 29. Everyone Thinks Their Kid Is the Best but Mine Actually Is
  • Chapter 30. Hoarder
  • Chapter 31. You're Doing a Good Job
  • Chapter 32. Relationship Porn (XXX, NSFW)
  • Chapter 33. Cool Widow Kind of Wants to Kiss Someone
  • Chapter 34. Frenching in a Van
  • Chapter 35. How You Do It
  • Chapter 36. Please Like Me
  • Chapter 37. I Don't Want to Make It Look Easy
  • Chapter 38. No
  • Chapter 39. Meanwhile, the World Goes On
  • Chapter 40. Is He Going to Die Soon?
  • Chapter 41. "The Boy Is Mine"
  • Chapter 42. Welcome to Grey Gardens
  • Chapter 43. Petty Crimes
  • Chapter 44. Lean In
  • Chapter 45. Just Quit
  • Chapter 46. It's Going to Be Okay (I Think)
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Purmort manages to pull off a funny, never-morbid memoir largely about losing her husband to brain cancer. She recorded his journey in a blog called myhusbandstumor.com, subtitled It's not a cancer story, it's a love story. With some cancer. Despite a 2014 that sucked pretty hard (she miscarried her second baby; a few weeks later, lost her dad; and then six weeks later, her husband, Aaron), she still elicits laughs as she combines humor and wisdom. Purmort pokes fun at herself as a PR girl and offers advice: Marry a person who is perfectly imperfect, because if you've ever watched a true crime show you should know that the perfect' spouse always murders you in the end. Along the way, she tosses in her philosophy on roller coasters (I don't like paying money to feel like I'm about to die) and jokes about her not-so-beautiful-in-the-beginning newborn, Ralph. The permission-granting title is correct: it is OK to laugh.--Springen, Karen Copyright 2016 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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