Audiobook: I’m Just A Person by Tig Notaro (Narrated by Tig Notaro)

An amazing and real story

5 out of 5 stars

If you are thinking about reading or listening to this book, I would hope that you know of Tig Notaro.  If you don’t do yourself a favor and check out her amazing, deep, and real live album: “Live” first.

It’s amazing what one person can be forced to endure.  Tig’s life seemed to be on the normal arc of a stand-up comedian.  She was performing, making money from gigs, and touring.  She then suffered from one of the worst streaks of health and bad news that you could imagine.  Pneumonia, C-DIFF, her mother died in a freak accident, going through a breakup with her girlfriend, then finding out she had stage 2 invasive breast cancer.  Yes, you read all of that right.

Just an upfront warning: this book will make you feel.  It might not make you cry (I have no way of knowing what will and won’t make people cry) but it did make me sob quietly a few times on my way to or from work.

I knew a lot of this story from different forms: her documentary on Netflix, her live album “Live”, and her show on Amazon Prime: One Mississippi. But hearing her tell all of these stories in such detail is an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world.  I feel like I personally know Tig after listening to this audiobook.  I’m so happy that she took the time to tell her story.  I know that this book will help others get through dark parts of their life… and it it doesn’t they can go to hell.

I’m Just A Person is as real as an audiobook memoir can get.  Tig’s ability to tell this extremely hard collection of stories make you like her even more than you already did.

Tig, I think that we all have a percentage of life left.  You may have a 93 percent chance of life, and I’m glad to hear that you are living it.  I hope that others will do the same.   Even without knowing this number.

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Brian

I’ve loved reading since I was little when my dad would read me Dr. Suess books. Fast-forward a little and I noticed that he was always reading on his lunch breaks at work, and I wondered why.Then, I found a book that took me to another place and time, to another feeling,another sense of “being”.It was the first book that I ever fell in love with, and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

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