Happy
A Memoir

Lemon’s memoir focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and recovery of a brain malformation which is discovered while the author is a young athlete at a tight-knit mid-Western liberal arts college. Lemon chronicles a hyper-masculine existence of drunken parties, substance abuse, male bonding, locker-roo......more

I set out to read this all in one gulp, but I realized a little ways in that I was going to have to switch gears and move to smaller doses. Especially when the book moved into material about the brain surgery, the combination of the vividly-rendered scenes with rich language made it better to experi......more

During his college freshman year Alex Lemon suffered his first stroke. An unexpected event in one so young, who was hugely popular, athletic, doing well in his classes. It's not often that the experience of a stroke has been shared with so much eloquence. But the fact was that Alex Lemon's disabilit......more

A favorite memoir. Right up there with memoirs by other favorite writers of mine like Gregory Orr, Chris Offutt, Nick Flynn, and Tom Andrews. Alex was already an A+ poet and now he's an A+ prose stylist, too.......more

Very raw description of both the symptoms and the recovery. Great read for anyone in the Mac-Groveland area.......more