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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.
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"I loved this book! Meredith Norton writes in the same vein as Haven Kimmel and Anne Lamott...she is achingly astute, poignient and funny all in the same breath. She doesn't gloss over the seriousness of her condition, but she has a life and baby and a complicated family and these things are also a part of her life. This book should be on every woman's shelf both because it is soberingly real and because it is loaded with hope and humor."
— Dawne (4 out of 5 stars)
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“A truly elegant memoir…[on] the physical slapstick of battling this disease.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine -
“Her disarming frankness renders the book less a cancer survival guide and more a lovably unfiltered e-mail from a hilarious friend.”
— People -
“By including touches of wit and sarcasm, Norton strikes a successful balance between light and heavy, keeping her audience consistently engaged.”
— San Francisco Chronicle -
“Crackle[s] with heartfelt intensity and irreverence.”
— Booklist -
“Blackly humorous…Norton is one plucky dame, and she displays a sharp eye for the human condition.”
— Kirkus Reviews -
“Will make readers stand up and cheer. Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal
Lopsided Listener Reviews
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" It was pretty good. A quick, funny read. "
— Amanda, 2/14/2014 -
" The first half is hilarious and tragic. The last half isn't as interesting. However, I really admire the author and her spunk. "
— Adrian, 1/29/2014 -
" Great book - very touching and funny "
— Eryn, 1/9/2014 -
" This book was unbelievably funny considering the subject matter. The author was able to frame her experience as a real person without getting maudlin, and also threw in a lot of (hilarious) anecdotes about her life. "
— Ceryta, 1/1/2014 -
" Funny look at a life-changing event. "
— Micaela, 12/27/2013 -
" the author has a wicked sense of humor and told her story of breast cancer with dignity and grace.....with lots of humor... "
— kathi, 12/21/2013 -
" This is a great (and actually pretty funny) memoir about one woman surviving a breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. "
— Michelle, 12/19/2013 -
" This was the most down-to-earth illness/recovery story I remember reading. I feel like I know this person, and I really like and admire her. "
— Kim, 12/10/2013 -
" This is a very funny, poignant, and moving memoir. It shows that humor can get you through the toughest situations barely scathed. (Unfortunately I know this all too well.) "
— Kate, 10/28/2013 -
" Really funny book about cancer. Really. Will make you LOL. "
— Lisa, 10/18/2013 -
" I thought the book was darkly funny, and I found myself really liking her. Often times she would segue to a new topic/thought, which couls be distracting, but she managed to tie the loose ends together at the end of a chapter. If there were 1/2 stars available I'd give this one 3 1/2 stars. "
— Hillary, 10/15/2013 -
" I enjoyed this book. It was humerous yet honest, sarcastic yet touching. A very introspective look into the life of a person dealing with cancer and all the life changing moments it creates. "
— Amy, 8/27/2013 -
" Awesome. Made me laugh, which is not what I usually get from a cancer memoir. "
— Cate, 2/21/2013 -
" Wasn't what I thought it would be. Hoped for more "
— Pam, 8/16/2012 -
" I want to recommend it to friends with cancer but it might be a little too confronting at times. "
— Pip, 5/27/2012 -
" Nice to read a "cancer book" with a dose of humour in it, not to diminish other accounts at all. Found this refreshingly honest - speaking from the safety of never having experienced it. "
— Anne, 5/13/2012 -
" Norton does not wallow in self-pity and endearments, but spits it out as she truly feels with a dose of articulate and at times cynical humour "
— Baljit, 4/15/2012 -
" I heard people raving about this book but I didn't feel the same about it. "
— Kelly, 4/2/2012 -
" I LOVE this book... it's one of the funniest books I've read in years "
— Alex, 1/9/2012 -
" Candid humorous book about living with cancer. "
— Jennifer, 1/6/2012 -
" A sensational book by a cancer survivor, she makes cancer less scary for me (everyone I know dies of some form of cancer) for having survived breast cancer with her wonderful humor intact and losing only a boob in the process. "
— Abby, 12/15/2011 -
" Informative, funny and seriously creative. "You don't want the doctor to give you a headache just fix your headache." Right? "
— Dee, 8/14/2011 -
" her memoir reads like equal parts anne lamott and david sedaris. i was won over by her candor, shriekingly hilarious humor, and total lack of pretension about dealing with a rare form of breast cancer. "
— Susannah, 6/16/2011 -
" A surprising book about cancer. It's not sad and depressing- it's funny. <br/> <br/>My only gripes are that Meredith is a little perverted. And she describes things too well. But I guess I should expect that in a book about breast cancer. "
— Andrew, 4/5/2011
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.
About Carrington MacDuffie
Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel.