It's okay to laugh
Subtitle: (crying is cool, too)
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780062419378; 9780062419385
Subjects: Couples; Brain; Patients; Cancer; Family relationships; Widows; Biography
Other titles: It is ok to laugh
Description: When Purmort met Aaron-- a charismatic art director and comic-book nerd-- he made Nora laugh so hard she pulled a muscle. When Aaron was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, they refused to let it limit their love. They got engaged on Aaron's hospital bed and had a baby boy while he was on chemo. In the period that followed, Nora and Aaron packed fifty years of marriage into the three they got. The obituary they wrote during Aaron's hospice care revealing his true identity as Spider-Man touched the nation. Here Purmont gives her readers a love letter to life, in all its messy glory.
Table of contents: title: Lay off me, Mary; title: Now; title: Stories; title: Brothers gotta hug; title: Take the message to Garcia; title: Where is my syllabus?; title: iPhone therapy; title: My eighties-sitcom dad; title: Family (a story about juggalos and not my actual family, sorry siblings); title: A boy is why I moved to New York, and a boy is why I left; title: How I met your father; title: Please let me get what I want; title: What to do when the person you love gets brain cancer (or any cancer); title: And also with you; title: Sorry you dated me; title: Slut; title: The game; title: My ex-boyfriend's ex-girlfriend; title: Who should you marry?; title: The most magical place on earth; title: Hot young widows club; title: A letter to the recruiter who emailed my husband a month after his death; title: Life plans I've made since my husband died; title: Quiet, Susan; title: Madge; title: It's a secret, so hush; title: Immaculate conception; title: Helpful advice for new mothers; title: Everyone thinks their kid is the best but mine actually is; title: Hoarder; title: You're doing a good job; title: Relationship porn (XXX, NSFW); title: Cool widow kind of wants to kiss someone; title: Frenching in a van; title: How you do it; title: Please like me; title: I don't want to make it look easy; title: No; title: Meanwhile, the world goes on; title: Is he going to die soon?; title: "The boy is mine"; title: Welcome to Grey Gardens; title: Petty crimes; title: Lean in; title: Just quit; title: It's going to be okay (I think).