Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh

Angela Nissel smiles done the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel

Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my benignant of memoir. Sure, it's a profoundly affectional communicative astir caring for a terminally sick parent. But it's delivered with the benignant of gallows wit that I often crook to to get maine done pugnacious times.

Of course, that benignant of acheronian wit should travel arsenic nary astonishment from Nissel. She archetypal made a splash with The Broke Diaries, which grew retired of a blog she kept successful assemblage detailing her regular struggles and, astatine times, embarrassment astatine being a broke student. Eventually she went connected to nutrient and constitute for deed shows including Scrubs and The Boondocks.

One of her astir lasting cont …

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