A Light Roast

<p><strong><em>A Light Roast</em></strong> is an inescapably honest look at grief a life lived and the darkly humorous ways we continue laughing with the dead.</p><p></p><p>After the sudden death of her father Jen continues in conversation with him-because where else is he except in her head? Living with the soundtrack of a vulgar whip-smart scotch-loving bear of a baby boomer in your brain is exhausting but it sure beats the nothingness of death. Jen talks at her dad while his ashes sit-waiting and listening-a captive man in a can. As for Bud? He talks back continuing to roast his daughter and trying to control from the beyond. Bud dishes out advice on what shapes our messy existence: from good tunes to cars from lotto tickets to the decision to have kids (Trust me don't this father cautioned his own offspring.)</p><p></p><p>Together they wax lyrical about the best cover songs air dirty family laundry and sort out that every day shouldn't be just a series of forced marches. With endearing irreverence they bring back Bud-isms: The sun shines on every dog's ass eventually. Come for the unlicensed grief-therapy and stay for the profanity. <strong><em>A Light Roast</em></strong> reveals that to live with grief we shouldn't make angels out of the dead. Instead we need to keep the roast going.</p>