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A review by florapants84
I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
4.0
"I’m not a superstitious person, but I was beginning to believe that I was on a bad streak and that life had made a decision to take me down.”—Tig Notaro
I was a fan of Tig’s before her Live album shot her to stardom. During that show, she shocked the audience with her honest humor about her recent back-to-back tragedies: the sudden loss of her mother, a serious C. DIFF infection, followed by aggressive breast cancer. The follow-up to that album is her memoir, I’m Just a Person, a more filled in version of that show.
In her book, Notaro relates growing up with her free-spirited mother in Houston, her eventual path to stand up comedy and Los Angeles, the tumultuous events of 2012, and how she overcame those odds to become the changed person she is today. I listened to the audio book edition, which she read in her classic deadpan voice, which lent a real intimacy to the events she related with sardonic humor. Some parts were almost achingly painful to hear, but it was never over the top. I hope to check out her album sometime soon while the book is still fresh in my mind.
I was a fan of Tig’s before her Live album shot her to stardom. During that show, she shocked the audience with her honest humor about her recent back-to-back tragedies: the sudden loss of her mother, a serious C. DIFF infection, followed by aggressive breast cancer. The follow-up to that album is her memoir, I’m Just a Person, a more filled in version of that show.
“I always considered myself a private person—both on stage and off—who made way more observations about the world around me than the one inside me. But after my life fell apart in March of 2012, I felt compelled to express myself on a much deeper level.”
In her book, Notaro relates growing up with her free-spirited mother in Houston, her eventual path to stand up comedy and Los Angeles, the tumultuous events of 2012, and how she overcame those odds to become the changed person she is today. I listened to the audio book edition, which she read in her classic deadpan voice, which lent a real intimacy to the events she related with sardonic humor. Some parts were almost achingly painful to hear, but it was never over the top. I hope to check out her album sometime soon while the book is still fresh in my mind.