Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom is Dead author Angela Nissel
WHO & WHAT: Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with ‘Good Grief, Pass The Bread, Mom is Dead’ author Angela Nissel
Read Like a Writer invites participants to slow down and study how Black authors build their books — examining structure, voice, point of view, and form, not just theme and feeling.
WHEN: Sunday, July 12th from 10:00-11:30am (doors open at 9:45)
WHERE: In-Person at Reparations Club (3054 S. Victoria Ave. LA, CA 90016)
HOW: FREE ticket with book purchase through Rep Club – (duh) for 10% off with code: BOOKCLUB10
$10 GA ticket (book purchased elsewhere)
ABOUT THE BOOK
TELEVISION WRITER, PRODUCER, AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE BROKE DIARIES AND MIXED CHARTS HER UNEXPECTED ROLE AS HER TERMINALLY ILL MOTHER’S CARETAKER IN THIS FUNNY, MOVING, AND UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR.
Angela Nissel always wanted her mother’s approval. But two defining events created a barrier between them: renouncing Christianity and being admitted to a psychiatric ward— events that mirrored failed parenting to her mother.
Beating her depression, Angela moved to Los Angeles where she quickly achieved success as a television writer but soon after found herself dead broke and enduring a painful divorce. It was at this low point that she received heartbreaking news: her mother had cancer. Angela moves her mother to Los Angeles where she attempts to hide foreclosure notices and her live-in boyfriend while also trying to save her mother’s life with everything from crystals to celebrity doctors. Still, her mother succumbs to her cancer.
In this poignant and hilarious memoir, Angela chronicles her odyssey as she tries to remain “strong” like her mother in the face of grief. Delightfully self-deprecating, unsparing in its honesty, yet filled with wacky humor and joy, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom is Dead, is an unforgettable portrait of love, yearning, loss, and resilience that reveals the indelible power of introspection to save our lives.
ANGELA NISSEL is author of the national bestselling comedic memoirs The Broke Diaries and Mixed, and a prolific television producer and writer whose credits include The Other Black Girl, Mixed-ish and Scrubs. Prior to her television career, she had illustrious careers as a temp for the IRS, a stripper, and a “sleep apnea auditor” watching people snore overnight in a local hospital. She lives in Los Angeles and enjoys beating people half her age in video games.
ABOUT PERMISSION TO WRITE
ASHLEY M. COLEMAN is the author of GOOD MORNING, LOVE (Simon & Schuster, 2022) and a music industry executive with over a decade of experience. Her work has appeared in Essence, The Cut, Apartment Therapy, and GRAMMY.com. A Torch Literary Arts and Kimbilio fellow, she founded Permission to Write, a community for Black writers.
