When Libby
Miller is diagnosed with cancer and returns home to be comforted by her
husband, he himself drops a bomb: he actually is gay. Confused by this news,
she throws him out and decides spontaneously to end the life she led until that
day. She quits her job, arranges to sell the apartment and leaves Chicago for
Puerto Rico where she hopes to find some relief. Although she had decided to
give up life and enjoy the last months which remain, she has to learn that
there are people who care about her and want her to fight for her life.
It is rare
to find a book in which the main character suffers from a deadly illness and
yet narrates in such a laughable way. Camille Pagan’s style of writing is the
perfect balance between hilarious and serious. Neither does she take the
diagnosis easy not does the make you feel depressed as a reader. I can imagine
that being in this situation makes you in one second laugh out loud and cry in
the next and after all, you are alone in you struggle with the illness and the
question how to react to it. The author does not provide an answers, it is not
a book to motivate you to fight because this is the only good thing to do.
There are reasons underneath which could also lead to a completely different
decision.
All in all,
albeit the very serious topic a very humorous and entertaining story to read.
