Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Angela Nissel's latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063345110?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback"><em>Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead</em></a><em>, </em>is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Broke-Diaries-Completely-Hilarious-Misadventures/dp/0679783571/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_2/147-6007463-8645753?pd_rd_w=CWait&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=774AS2NSH8H4533PAGJK&pd_rd_wg=fzM79&pd_rd_r=9e261540-4291-47ee-aef2-c0466f6b286c&pd_rd_i=0679783571&psc=1"><em>The Broke Diaries</em></a>, which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student. Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including <a href="https://www.hulu.com/series/bba197b5-eb03-4a09-b5f6-f04c053471d7"><em>Scrubs</em></a> and <a href="https://www.hbomax.com/shows/boondocks/c43c65e7-49fe-4795-9e13-759bad094a78?utm_source=universal_search"><em>The Boondocks</em></a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of her most lasting cont …</p>
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