You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead
Essays on Life at an Angle
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti’s essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today.
Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours — but that doesn’t stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can’t quite navigate.
Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school. He endures a colonoscopy and vainly attempts to lower his Body Mass Index — all with mixed results. He loves his long-suffering wife, worries about his aging parents and his three children, who seem to spend a lot of time battling online trolls, having crushes on vampires, and littering their rooms with enough junk to start a landfill.
Customer Reviews
Snapshots of a Family and a never still life
This book, in column after funny, achingly sad and very human column captures the moments that make a family. Benedetti writes about birth, death, cottage mooching, losing your car keys - and just about everything else that's not nailed down. His writing is honest and almost always humorous, until the raw emotion of a family tragedy or disappointment is laid bare in tight prose. Lovely, witty work from a keen observer and a beleaguered and blessed father.