Death & Other Conveniences
Death & Other Conveniences
Marissa Yip-Young
, Jude Castillo
, Jane Beeman
, Marilyn Stanley
, Kim Patrick
, Agnes Marshall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Sharon Forzley
, cassandra schiemann
, Penny Gilman
, Natasha Andres
, Patricia Johnson
, Mathew Webb
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Andrea Pole
, zelda dwyer
, Shannon Holmes
, Sandra Furlotte
, Tyler Webb
, Barry Kazimer
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Janice B Knickle
, Jane McRobb
, Beth Dekoker
, Sabrina Phan
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Andy Holmes
, Ariane Béland
, Ms Bookmarked
, Tiffany Glubis
, Natasa Ilic
, Laurie Burns
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Ed Gilman
, Mary Therrien
, Dani Kat
, Deana Bueley
, Katie Kah
, Paula Adam
, Alanna Virtue
, Cheryl Johnson
, Allison Dube
, Jessica Harrison
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Tanya Blake
, Jessica Doiron
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kym Marsh
, Kim Cappellina
, joy mills
, Debbie Youngman
, Margaret McKay
, Maria Mclean
, Karen Kendrick
, Mary Mexis
, Dana Francoeur
, Candace Fertile
, ilona storie
, Jane Graham
, Marianne Ward
, jane luce
, Susie Rance
, Charles Leblanc
, Caleb Nault
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Elmira Olson
, Nancy Daoust
, Lynn Bechtel
, Patricia McKeown
, Irenee R Anderson
, Sara Erskine
, Holly Elisabeth
, Janet Meisner
, Robert Hykawy
, S. A. M. McCue
, Wendy Houlden
, Alanna King
, Barbara Leckie
, Denise Duvall
, Huguette Lemieux
, Joshua Lewis
, Joe Mitchell
, Catherine Westerberg
, diana kirkwood
, Darlene Foster
, Susan Toy
, Leila Grobel
, Olivier Guérin
, Hoda Montazeri
, Randi Ann Doll
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Sara Conway
, Joanne MacNevin
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paula Ritchie
, Shannon Leclerc
, Claire Gear
, Denica StP
, Joan Clare
, Rhona Brinkman
, Karen Nordrum
, Carrie Morris
, Angela Mitchell
, Janet Miller
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Ken Gilmour
, P. Thompson
, Melissa Kohlman
, Daria Krykhtin
, Kevin Smith
, Debra Fisher
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Tracy Campbell
, Susan Hughes
, Meghan Barton
, Heather Norris
, Shane Birley
, MJ Malleck
, Karen Lowe
, Wayne Harrigan
, Jenn George
, Pat Johnston
, Mary Danieli
, Geri Seal
, M M English
, Emily Johansen
, Jennifer Beyak
, Diana Richardson
, Lisa Mallia
, Marilyn Stubberfield
, Kim Carswell
, Tanis Anne
, Melissa Dingwall
, BARBARA BELL
, Elaine Grandon
, Michelle Fallows
, Blake Patterson
, Cheryl McKinnon
, Thelma Ball
, Carson Loveless
, Nora Gould
, Mel Barroso
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Heather Belliveau
, BJ Underwood
, Yolande Thivierge
, Maggie Keating
, johnna abdou
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Melissa Poremba
, Lynn Andrews
, Rachel Edmonds
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Joanne Epp
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Well, Dick's dead. Now what?
Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn't want to deal with the details—why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery.
Monty, Margo's ex-husband (the first one, not the dead one), is trying to support Margo—who seems to be finally entering adulthood at the tender age of sixty-two. Their daughter Julia knows Margo needs her, but between work complications, house complications, and genius-yet-useless son complications, Julia's gasping for air already. Dead Dick's ex-wife Carole and their daughter Velma consider a Margo a maneater thanks to a few long-ago indiscretions, so the funeral is a nightmare. Life in New Brunswick lately is a tornado of siblings, children, pets, marriages, health issues, and endless bureaucracies.
And at the centre of it all is Margo, living alone for the very first time, trying to endure everyone else's judgements about the woman she is when she doesn't even know herself. Maybe a cat will help. (The cat doesn't help.)
How old do you have to be to come of age?
....and has anyone seen Dick's will?
