Angela Nissel
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead
Book description - Good Grief, Pass The Bread, Mom Is Dead is a veteran comedy
writer trying to make sense of loss.
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Praise
"I confess: I was not prepared. I was not prepared for the love, for the pain, for the anger, for the sorrow, for the sheer vivacious, unsparing (of anyone, herself very much included) honesty of Angela Nissel's Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead. As one
would expect from a great book about death, this memoir is very much about life, holding on to it and letting go of it, and I was, page after page, bowled over by the keen specificity of Nissel's narrative—she's a marvelously detailed painter of word portraits—
and, by adroit extension, her ability to evoke the universal wonder of having a mother and of surviving one. And yes, if you're wondering: It's also, at times, extremely funny, sometimes full-out hilariously, sometimes full-out gut-punchingly." —Benjamin Dreyer, NY Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English.
“Filled with a candor that made me cry and an observational wit that left me in stitches. This is a heartfelt love letter not just to her mother, but to a generation of hardworking black women who spent their lives playing by the rules without ever getting to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. And it’s a perennial reminder to laugh and love on one another while we still can.” —Zakiya Dalila Harris, bestselling author of The Other Black Girl
“Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom is Dead signals the triumphant return of one of our most talented memoirists. Nobody prepared us to care for aging or ill parents, but Angela gives us extraordinary insight into her own journey, rooted in a daughter’s unconditional love for her mother. And like she does with everything else, her vulnerability in these pages is shared with remarkable humor and heart.”—Angela Rye, attorney and co-host of the award-winning Native Land Pod
"Nissel offers readers an unfiltered look at what it means to love someone who never fully seemed to approve of you, a dynamic many people will recognize but may have felt pressured to navigate in silence because of familial expectations and stigma." —Blavity
"Nissel’s raw and beautifully written memoir vividly depicts that in life, there are some things that we just can not control, like death. This memoir examines life’s heavy hitters like financial setbacks, caring for a dying parent, and divorce, with candor and raw transparency."—Essence
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