A fun, funny, and heartbreakingly real memoir of a woman's fight against terminal brain cancer. The writing is honest, charming, and full of cuss words.
Suzanne Samples teaches English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She was diagnosed with a frontal lobe glioblastoma multiforme at 36. She loves roller derby and lives on the side of a mountain with her pets Gatsby, Prufrock, and Duffles.
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Frontal Matter: Glue Gone Wild

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Samples, Suzanne

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Review\n"Suzanne Samples' new memoir, Stargazing in Solitude, is stunning, absolutely arresting, so rife with humanity that it fairly takes you to your knees. Samples possesses such range and facility that it is difficult to know what to be most astonished by: her toughness and dogged stamina in face of overwhelming hardship; her breathtaking candor; her endearing, lyric, wise-cracking prose; the one-of-a-kind deft humor; the honed craft that builds in crescendo sentence by sentence. This is this an uncanny, remarkable book, by an author undaunted by the unexplored, forbidden precincts of the heart and soul, a primer that dispenses a priceless lesson on how to keep the two from sundering." --Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-2014) & author of The High Heart\n"Stargazing in Solitude is an astonishing portrayal of living with cancer-- and beyond it. Beautifully written, at times tender and tough, this excellent memoir grapples with the complex ways in which we heal ourselves. Suzanne Samples builds on her remarkable debut with this fine sequel." --Caleb Johnson, author of Treeborne\nThe follow-up to Suzanne's Best of Year debut memoir, FRONTAL MATTER: GLUE GONE WILD, STARGAZING is a humorous look at piecing a life back together after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Stargazing in Solitude

On September 17, 2022, the literary world, indeed the whole world, lost a unique voice with the passing of Suzanne " Hammer" Samples. Her final journey began in 2014 with a brain tumor diagnosis. She chronicled her struggles and triumphs even as she worked through post-surgery rehab including regaining the loss of arm and hand function. Suzanne' s rare courage and candor gave us a brutally honest and unflinching view of her life. Though she " nagged" her editor and publisher to get her first book into print before she died, Suzanne outlived her prognosis. The memoir, " Frontal Matter: Glue Gone Wild" went on to be named among the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and sent Suzanne on a phenomenal book tour where she wowed listeners with her experiences, stellar personality and dark wit. She continued on to write two sequels, " Stargazing in Solitude" published to acclaim in 2021, and the " 13 Tunnels" , even as she returned to teaching and started a literary magazine. Her trilogy offers insight, comfort, and understanding to the patients, caregivers, and loved ones dealing with this and similar devastating diagnoses.

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