I'd Rather Do Chemo Than Clean Out the Garage: Choosing Laughter Over Tears

An inspiring and witty memoir by a woman battling cancer—with laughter.

Fran Di Giacomo made it through one case of cancer at forty—then got hit with a worse case in her fifties. Tired of the somber, weepy books she kept getting from well-meaning friends, she stumbled upon a book that made her laugh out loud—and realized that was what she'd been missing. Laughter felt good—and that was how she wanted to feel.

Inspired, she wrote this unique memoir, an unsentimental, sharply funny take on her ...