'Losses of laughter. Stories of an imperfect woman', by Sílvia Abril: comic confession of a menopausal and hard-working mother

Now so far from Christmas but so close to April 23, the men of this country finally have the perfect gift in the form of a book for them (and for them).

Listen out loud, as if she were speaking on a podcast, to Sílvia Abril exploring her experience as a 50-year-old woman, mother, actress, comedian, clown and regular passenger on Ave y airplane (as well as a victim of the unprecedented passing of the years). ) is a Catalan rumba without comparison right now, or with very few comparisons at its level.

It is impossible to better establish naturalness, amenity, intelligence and comedy as an instrument of perception of oneself - a famous person - who at the same time is a “human being”, as he once says in this book of unbeatable wisdom and fearless comedy. to almost nothing.

The absence of recommendations, advice, prescriptions and other derivations of mature age makes the book a loose and exemplary experiment to laugh, be happy, smile and above all recognize yourself in it, whether you are from one side of the human race or the other. or even both at the same time.

Hearing yourself laughing out loud while reading with no one within 20 kilometers around is an incomparable therapy, authentic self-help, particularly if you know how to tell the story of the visit to the heal-all acupuncturist as she tells it: I want to be like Sílvia Abril, although I maintain the reserve what another character in the book, her husband, Andreu Buenafuente, may have to say.

But in any case, and whatever happens, it will be his fault because it is impossible for Sílvia Abril not to be as she appears in this book: to tell how she tells about the entanglement on the family WhatsApp and the problems with her stupid bladder is outrageous, and I only have the doubt that one important detail is true: Sílvia, how can board games “crazy” you?

In fact, one of her close friends, Eva Merseguer, assures in a (also) funny prologue that she, Sílvia Abril, is stuck in the book as uncontrolled hyperactive most of the time.

She is no longer the girl who covered her face with chalk so that her classmates would laugh when they punished her facing the blackboard: she is better.

Far from the victimhood and extortion of pain disguised as female empowerment in books like Mar García Puig's,

The History of Vertebrates

, Sílvia Abril exhibits a mental health as fragile as anyone's when a pregnancy falls on her—a wild hormonal earthquake. , but none the same as another—and it tells an exciting story because it explains without climbing any vine the strength of fragility or the fragility of the strength that comes with being a mother, menopausal and working: almost like mimosas in spring, so fragile and so strong at the same time.

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