When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People

The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor.

In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother of 5 kids—6 if you include her husband—sat in the neurosurgery department in star-covered sweats too whimsical for the seriousness of...