{"product_id":"god-said-ha","title":"God Said, \"Ha!\"","description":"Hilarious, unflinchingly honest, and moving, Julia Sweeney's autobiographical one-woman show God Said, \"Ha!\" wowed critics and audiences in Los Angeles and on Broadway. Now she has expanded her show into a memoir of one disastrous year in her life.\n\nIn 1995, after an amicable divorce, Julia Sweeney bought a bungalow in Hollywood, settling in with her three cats to begin a rich, independent life of blissful solitude and personal growth. Her new home, she thought, would be a haven of domesticity and a cozy venue for fabulous dinner parties, and her new life would be the envy of her neighbors.\n\nBut then, God said, \"Ha!\"\n\nOne month after her move to Los Angeles, Julia's younger brother Michael was diagnosed with terminal lymph cancer. Julia's new home became Michael's, and\nthen transformed into the Sweeney family center, as their parents moved from Spokane and took up residence in Julia's bedroom. Suddenly Julia's days revolved around Michael's chemotherapy sessions, and the gracious details of her dreamed-of life crumbled under the reality of sleeping on her sofa bed and\nfinding her own kitchen filled with her parents' favorite beer and convenience foods.\n\nJulia coped by sharing the daily travails of the Sweeney family in poignant and hilarious detail at the Uncaberet in Los Angeles--from the minor disasters of\neveryday life, to the adjustments of living in close quarters with the people she'd spent half a lifetime growing up and away from, to the terrors and heartaches life-threatening illness brings.\n\nThen when it seemed things couldn't get worse, they did. Just weeks before Mike died, Julia was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer--her \"sympathy cancer,\" as Mike called it--bonding them in a giddily black-humored club of two: the \"International House of Cancer.\" Within days of burying her\nbrother, Julia underwent a radical hysterectomy and began her solo journey through this house she'd never expected to move into, a house she had until now\nseen only from the outside looking in.\n\nProfoundly inspiring and courageously funny, God Said, \"Ha!\" marks the debut of a remarkable young writer.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0553106473\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0553106473.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sweeney, Julia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45510552387761,"sku":"RDV.0553106473.G","price":7.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0553106473-0.jpg?v=1746813423","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/god-said-ha","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}