Death and Other Inconveniences

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Well Dick's dead. Now what?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Margo his widow is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork and other tasks coming her way. She doesn't deal with details-why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery. Not terribly well it turns out.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Margo's ex-husband (the first one not the dead one) and their two adult children are trying to support Margo-who seems to be finally entering adulthood at the tender age of sixty-two. Dead Dick's ex-wife and their daughter consider Margo a maneater so the funeral is a nightmare. Life in New Brunswick lately is a tornado of siblings children pets marriages health issues and endless bureaucracy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And at the centre of it all is Margo living alone for the very first time going back to work as a drugstore cashier to make ends meet and trying to endure everyone else's judgements about the woman she is when she barely knows herself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>How old do you have to be to come of age?...and has anyone seen Dick's will?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>With humour and heart national bestseller Lesley Crewe walks readers through the incredibly disruptive domino effects of the death of one unremarkable man-and the evolution of the flibbertigibbet wife he's left behind.</span></p><p><br></p>