Mumbai New York Scranton

Mumbai New York Scranton (2013) by Tamara Shopsin. A memoir in which Shopsin remembers her trip to India and then back to the United States, during which she was showing increasingly alarming symptoms of the tumor that was growing in her skull. Mostly she was vomiting a lot and getting killer headaches. The book alternates between travelogue and sickness descriptions, until it climaxes in a hospital in New York, where she undergoes three surgeries to control and remove the tumor. Through it all Shopsin is good-humored and insightful, and it makes for a riveting, quick read that I couldn't put down. (It is also made brief by the use of a lot of white space dispersed throughout the 276-page book.) I enjoyed the book. Grade: B+