It's Okay to Laugh
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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.
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The book is both hilarious and moving, and you'll find yourself moving from laughing to crying within a couple of chapters. If that sounds too intense for you, it's not at all...it gives you all the feels, in all the good ways.
Nora is a compassionate human with (too much) experience in the complicated art of grieving, and her book encompasses so many things about life and grief and love, and being imperfect, and being human. She does all of this while throwing in casual jokes that will make you lol.
Please, pick up this book. It will be the best nonfiction you read all year <3
For my full review, visit http://www.literaryquicksand.com/2017/07/review-okay-laugh-crying-cool/
Just what I expected from this book. There's humor, there's sadness, there's grief, and ultimately, there is life.
