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gabriellecarolina 's review for:
I'm Just a Person
by Tig Notaro
If you've been following Tig Notaro's journey I recommend picking up this memoir; I hope you will not be disappointed.
The book is short, the jokes will almost pass you by, they're sewn so tightly and methodically into the material, and summarizes the past five years of her life, which has been well publicized, with the additional insight here and there by Notaro herself. I found a few of these personal insights--particularly those regarding her father and step father--to be illuminating and authentic. Occasionally I felt the same idea was circled back to, examined again, and the conclusion arrived at unchanged between the chapters.
Overall, I will support this artist whatever she does, because she does it with a self-awareness that is not for sale, with an empathy that can only be gained by being on "that" side of the health and death line, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it humor that keeps me laughing through a few tears.
The book is short, the jokes will almost pass you by, they're sewn so tightly and methodically into the material, and summarizes the past five years of her life, which has been well publicized, with the additional insight here and there by Notaro herself. I found a few of these personal insights--particularly those regarding her father and step father--to be illuminating and authentic. Occasionally I felt the same idea was circled back to, examined again, and the conclusion arrived at unchanged between the chapters.
Overall, I will support this artist whatever she does, because she does it with a self-awareness that is not for sale, with an empathy that can only be gained by being on "that" side of the health and death line, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it humor that keeps me laughing through a few tears.