Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, 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.
Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel.
She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries, 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 Scrubs and The Boondocks.
One of her most lasting cont … Read the full story at The Verge.