Angela Nissel on Her Memoir "Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead"
What if laughing at the funeral is the most honest thing you can do?
This week we sit down with Angela Nissel, the television writer behind Scrubs, The Boondocks and Mixed-ish, and author of The Broke Diaries, Mixed and her new memoir, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead. When her mother told her plainly that she had two months to live, Angela moved her to Los Angeles, secretly broke and between jobs, convinced a Hollywood doctor might have a secret cure. What followed was a crash course in mothering her mother, from changing diapers to finally asking her what would make her happy.
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