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Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting | 
 enlarge | Author: Meredith Norton
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 39302
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0670019283
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196994490092
EAN: 9780670019281
ASIN: 0670019283
Publication Date: June 12, 2008
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A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer
Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrongs cancer survival book pressed on her by well-meaning family and friends.
Alongside the harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories from her offbeat life. We see her childhood time during a somewhat racist ski trip, a family reunion at a Florida alligator farm, and her life in a tree house with a neighbor, who, despite being vegan, hates mice enough to taxidermy them into miniature versions of racecar drivers, Jesus, a UPS delivery man, and Sally Jesse Raphael.
Like David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Nortons razor-sharp wit is at once riotous and excruciating. Lopsided is the remarkable debut of a masterful humorist.
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 Not for the newly diagnosed November 25, 2008
I feel I have read a completely different book than the other reviewers. While I sincerely hope she has beaten cancer for good, I found Meredith Norton to portray herself as a self-centered, ADD meanie. The one thing I, also a breast cancer survivor, fully agreed with was her assessment that "breast cancer just sucks," and there is not necessarily some profound life lesson to be learned.
Bouncing from one wacky lifestyle to another after college (and I inferred that her wealthy parents subsidized this), Norton moves to Paris, marries a handsome Frenchman, has a child, and is still dissatisfied with her life. She is diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer on a trip home to California and stays there to be treated. Her devastated husband struggles to keep supporting his family between France and America.
I felt sorry for Norton's husband. While I understand that it is normal to be cranky and irritable while undergoing the aggressive treatment that Norton endured, she seems to have no remorse for her nasty and dismissive treatment of the father of her child. She also struck me as completely uncommitted to her marriage.
Bottom line: I did not find this book to be "wickedly funny" or filled with humor. Norton does have some amusing lines: "Now I was ready to join the Amazon archers," but the edges of that humor, especially her commentary about other people, are a bit too sharp. Norton should be very grateful to her family and friends for loving her anyway.
 Lopsided- A Memoir by Meredity Norton October 29, 2008
A very funny book about a very serious subject. It shows that there can be humor in almost any situation. But it's informative, and comforting to those going through the same experience, knowing that they are not alone, and that it's possible to look at a lighter side. It's a great read; full also of vignettes about the author's family and friends which add a truly human touch. It's a good book for several reasons.
 Funny and Entertaining October 20, 2008
I was lucky enough to come across this book at a book festival. Although this book is about how the author deals with breast cancer, it is about so much more. Ms. Norton has had an interesting life so far, and I hope that she continues to write many more books so we can see the direction that her life takes.
It's a really entertaining book, which feels a little weird for me to say...since it's about a topic as serious as cancer. But, the authors approach is very funny and this would be an enjoyable read for anyone who's looking for a unique perspective and a fresh voice.
Funny and bittersweet August 22, 2008
Meredith is incredibly insightful and witty. She provides a unique take on a very serious subject. I read the book in one day- it was so engrossing I couldn't put it down. After all the jobs she describes in her book, it seems as though Meredith has found her calling as a writer.
A hilarious look at breast cancer August 19, 2008
My mom loved this book. She was recently diagnosed with the same cancer. It made her thankful that she did not have to go through as much as this woman had and that she is still alive and well. People need to know this type of breast cancer is out there too!
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