A fun, funny, and heartbreakingly real memoir of a woman's fight against terminal brain The writing is honest, charming, and full of cuss words.. Suzanne Samples teaches English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She was diagnosed with a frontal lobe glioblastoma multiforme at 36. She loves roller derby and lives on the side of a mountain with her pets Gatsby, Prufrock, and Duffles.