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God Said, Ha!: A Memoir

God Said, Ha!: A Memoir

Sweeney, Julia

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ISBN10: 0553379232
ISBN13: 9780553379235
Publisher: Bantam
Published: May 4 1998
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.40 Depth: 5.50
Language: English
1995 was, for Julia Sweeney, a truly horrible year. She got a divorce (amicable), bought a small bungalow in Hollywood, and looked forward to a life that said, Here dwells a happily single young woman! But then the ax fell. Her younger brother Mike was diagnosed with terminal cancer and moved in with her. Her parents came to be with Mike--and moved in with her. Suddenly her tiny bungalow for one was filled to the rafters with Sweeneys. Here she was sleeping on her pull-out sofa bed while her father walked around, his Walkman on all day and her mother marveled at Julia's lack of such staples as stroganoff mixes. Every day was spent bringing Mike to and from chemotherapy, every evening watching Chicago Hope or E.R. Julia was now on seriously intimate terms with the people she had spent half a lifetime growing up away from.Just weeks before Mike died, Julia was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer--what Mike called her sympathy cancer--and within days of burying her brother, she underwent a radical hysterectomy, beginning her own journey through the International House of Cancer.From these Job-like travails, Julia has written a remarkably funny and touching memoir about a family in extremis that manages to persevere with humor, grace, and love.

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