Description
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey and Jenny Lawson, Gotham Girl Interrupted offers a hilarious, heartfelt, and fiercely candid memoir about life as a hapless writer, single parent, impassioned city girl, and epileptic.
"Smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very funny." --James Patterson
Smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down, Gotham Girl Interrupted is loaded with brash truths and laugh-out-loud moments about the epileptic age and culture in which we all live. It's also a dispatch from the frontlines of neurodiversity. Above all, it's about the battle for becoming who you are supposed to be and finding your tribe--no matter how much flopping around on the ground and wetting yourself you have to do to get there.
With wit and humility, Alisa Kennedy Jones chronicles her experiences after a diagnosis of ecstatic epilepsy (also suffered by Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Agatha Christie). Beginning with the first in a series of terrifying yet beautiful grand mal seizures, which she likens to "swallowing a bolt of lightning," each seizure leaves her with what Zen Buddhists sometimes refer to as a "beginner's mind"--a vast, open expanse of headspace, coupled with a creative euphoria. It's a state that renders you less encumbered by everything you've already learned, but also challenged by having to relearn some of the more basic aspects of daily life.
Author: Alisa Kennedy Jones
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 11/06/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781623545345
ISBN10: 162354534X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | People with Disabilities
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
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