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With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop mens room, or just about anywhere. Its your call, really.

These days, Dave has just the right amount of spare time to write books at home, preferably in his underwear, but things werent always perfect. When he found himself pushing thirty while still living with his parents in Cleveland, unsuited for anything but what an employment expert vaguely called a career in art, music, writing, or entertainment, he decided to visit some friends in New York for the weekend and never left. However, getting his life together wasnt as easy as hed hoped, and even an illegally subletted, rent controlled fifth-floor walk-up studio apartment with a (for the most part) working toilet wasnt glamorous enough to erase the fact that his four siblings were all married with steady jobs and actual human offspring. And in recent years, Daves father had grown tired of loaning him cash and living alone in the empty family home, neither of which made much sense to Dave, but whatever.

Through the process of his fathers eventual move to a retirement community, Dave and his dad bonded over the things in life that really matter: scorching-hot rock jams, the gluten allergy craze, eighteen-wheelers, Italian food (pizza spaghetti), and whatever else could possibly be left after that. Meanwhile, Dave discovered his late-blooming manhood via experiences as disparate and dangerous as a visit to a remote Mexican prison, where he learned that people everywhere love the Eagles, and a martial arts class that pushed his resolve and his groin to their limit. In , Hills voice is sharp, carefree, laced with just the right amount of profanity, and he isseemingly despite himselfdeeply empathetic as he portrays a difficult time in his familys life and grows up just enough to realize that maybe he and his dad arent so different after all.