In Bouncing Back Joan Rivers blends her explosively funny voice with deep compassion to produce a memorable book. Heres a fiercely honest, hilarious and moving tale of how one of comedys great stars survived the worst that life could throw at her her husbands suicide, estrangement from her daughter, the cancellation of her talk show, a TV boycott against her and financial catastrophe and how she bounced back to the top. Joan spares no painful detail in sharing the plan that enabled her to defeat all that threatened to destroy her in this poignant, uplifting, and richly funny memoir of a gutsy comeback against dismaying odds.