It Takes a Worried Man: A Memoir
by Brendan Halpin, 2002 After Brendan Halpin's wife was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, Brendan wrote a book about it. He writes about his fears: of death, becoming a single father, losing his best friend, being an adult all by himself. Although this is a book about living with cancer, living with cancer is necessarily about living, and Halpin also writes about that: about his daughter, his life as a high school teacher, being a son, being a sexual man, his love of movies, and his faith, church, and church based community. This book reads like a blog because it consists of short essays in sequence with rough topics, and also because some of the entries are awesome narratives and others won't make sense if you aren't up on the assumed knowledge of movies. In the end, I liked this book more for the frank self explanation than for the cancer story.
Turbulent reading.
