Ep. 169: Alison Larkin Loses her Love, Finds Her Funny, and Sings us into Sobs

Grief Is My Side Hustle

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Alison Larkin is such a gift. She is an English-American, having been born here in the states and then adopted by British parents who raised her across the pond.

These days, she is a comedian, novelist, actress, and audiobook narrator. Her novel, "The English American," sprang from her autobiographical one-woman comedy show about an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents in the United States.

The grief of being adopted and searching for your birth parents might be enough, you say-but no. Alison also lost her soulmate, Bhima, five days after they decide to get married.

Alison's story is as layered and devastating as it sounds; she had no choice but to make it into something funny, right? Enter her one-woman show and subsequent book, "Grief...A Comedy." The woman truly is griefy gold.

She proves as much when Alison serenades my producer and I at the end of the episode with a song she wrote herself. She hits every sad nerve, and yet inspires such hope and wonder after loss.

We LOVE Alison Larkin- and we're certain you will, too!

More about Alison:

https://alisonlarkin.com/alison-larkin-bio/
https://www.instagram.com/alisonlarkinpresents/

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