Lopsided, Meredith Norton
Lopsided, Meredith Norton
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Lopsided
How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

Author: Meredith Norton

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2008


Synopsis

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Neither too serious nor too saccharine, Meredith Norton displays the razorsharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles every step of her experience, from the first appearance of her bizarre symptoms while she was living in Paris to having to moving back home to California to live with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Alongside the hilarious and harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories of her offbeat life, ranting about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrongs cancer survival book offered by wellmeaning family and friends and railing against selfpity and victimhood. Irreverent, downtoearth, and incredibly funny, Nortons memoir brings a refreshing burst of attitude to a difficult experience she refuses to be intimidated by.

About Meredith Norton

Meredith Norton (1970-2013) traveled extensively and resided for several years in Europe. She was a graduate of the Bentley School, Berkeley High School, and Columbia College in New York with an AB degree in film studies and creative writing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo

In an attempt to be witty, Norton often comes across as grumpy. Also, in an anecdote from being fourteen at summer camp, was it really necessary to refer to your bunk-mate as a 'bull dyke', with 'lesbian-style' pants? Are we to assume that she was out then, or if out now and it is written reflective......more

I have weird feelings on this memoir. I have an academic interest in and addiction to women's disease narratives. I also love books that are funny. This book is both, to the point that I had to stop the audio book because I was laughing too much to listen well. For the first five CDs, the book was a......more