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Jennette Fulda is also the author of Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir.
Press/Reviews
Interview on WRAL in Raleigh-Durham on March 1, 2011
Awards/Features
An excerpt from Chocolate & Vicodin was featured on Salon.com on Sunday, February 20, 2010.
Staff Pick for Memoirs and Biographies at Any New Books?
What other authors have to say
“In search of relief from the headache that wouldn’t go away, Jennette Fulda shares her grueling journey through the mad, mad world of modern, managed-care medicine. Smart, unflinchingly honest, and laugh-out-loud funny, Chocolate & Vicodin kept me turning pages, hoping to find her cure on the next one, or maybe the next one.”
— Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling
author of Still Alice and Left Neglected.
“This book is sharply observed, weirdly suspenseful, and refreshingly honest. Jennette Fulda helps to bring the long-misunderstood and inherently absurd illness of chronic daily headache out of the closet, exposing the devastation it wreaks on every part of one’s life – and she’s really, really funny in the process. But you don’t have to be battling an epic headache or other wily chronic illness to appreciate it; I also recommend the book to anyone who just enjoys being in the intimate company of a talented storyteller with a strong, original voice.”
— Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
“A humorous and eminently accessible account of one woman’s struggle with a headache and the modern American health care system. Anyone with chronic illness will laugh and cry along with Ms. Fulda. All people whose lives are touched by chronic illness should read this book.”
— Emily C. Deans, M.D., author of Feeling Better: A 6-Week Mind-Body Program to Ease Your Chronic Symptoms
“Chocolate & Vicodin will resonate deeply with anyone blindsided by pain. Using her trademark humor and grit, blogger and author Jennette Fulda unmasks invisible disease with equal parts insight and skepticism. As she wades through doctor treatments, tests, and the steady flow of comments from the blogosphere, Fulda’s memoir emerges as more than a quest for healing but a hard-fought journey to reclaim her identity, a triumph so many readers facing chronic pain will appreciate.”
— Laurie Edwards, author of Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties and blogger at A Chronic Dose
“I was sucked in to the story from the very first chapter. Her writing is so strong, honest and raw. I loved her first book but I feel the writing is even stronger in Chocolate & Vicodin. Twice she had me in tears – from pure compassion from the hell she’s gone through then also, very selfishly, from relating to her musing on depression. She writes about her chronic pain with honesty, humour, grace and poignancy. It is a fantastic read.”
— Shauna Reid, author of The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
and blogger at DietGirl and What’s New, Pussycat?
Magazines, newspapers, web sites
“The truce she declares with her condition is impressive and may provide encouragement for anyone dealing with chronic pain…Fulda lives in a no-whine zone and is pretty straightforward about not being a martyr. She seems as if she would be fun to meet.”
— The BookSmack newsletter at LibraryJournal.com
“Lively…entertaining.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“Her resilience is inspirational, and her words will resonate with anyone who has experienced chronic pain, frequent pain, or mental pain such as anxiety and depression.”
— Twinsburg Public Library Blog and the sister podcast The ABC Book Review
“Whether you’ve had one headache or a million, you’ll enjoy the humor Jennette brings to Chocolate & Vicodin, and you’ll feel her pain, thankfully not literally.”
“Funny and informative…told by the excellent story-teller.”
“The real enjoyment is reading Jennette’s writing style…I feel like she’s my friend. She makes me laugh. What could have easily been a depressing book flew by and I found myself, oddly, uplifted.“
“Heartbreaking. Sweet. Funny.” — Well Read Wife
Blog tour
The blog tour for Chocolate & Vicodin features videos, podcasts, reviews, interviews, and several giveaways. Follow the fourteen stops on my blog book tour here.
