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mmkkll's review
3.0
A humorous and endlessly quotable memoir, despite its seemingly-depressing subject matter. It had me rolling on the floor with laughter at certain points.
jessica_gilkison's review
4.0
I picked this up looking for something lighter than my usual fare (memoirs & other non-fiction re: cancer, buddhism, hitting bottom & surviving the unthinkable). It's packaged as a dysfunctional family memoir with an emphasis on the drunk mother, but it's really a book about an adult daughter coping with the death of her father from cancer. Yes, the family is dysfunctional, yes the mother is drunk all the time, but that's not what the story is about at its core. For me, this book is about the ways in which we love people that might not make sense to others, and the process of losing such a person. It didn't turn out to be what I thought I was looking for, but it was absolutely what I was meant to read.
featherbooks's review
4.0
Well-written, sad family story of the cancer death of author's beloved father and the reactions & recollections of other family members, including her long-drunk mother, clutching a mayo jar of gin & mint as she shuffles along on her purple walker, singing her heart out.
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