I'M JUST A PERSON

Comedian Tig Notaro regales listeners with her very bad year in her emblematic understated voice. Her low-key delivery is just right for the series of horrible turns she describes: her mother's end stage of life as a comatose patient, her own battle with a nearly deadly bacterial infection, only to then be diagnosed with breast cancer—all while coping with the downs (and some ups) of her romantic life, family life, and career. Notaro's dry approach to this horrible raft of events keeps the listener both engaged and cheering for a women who seemingly doesn't do self-pity and chooses to keep moving ahead in life. F.M.R.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2017]