Relatively Painless by Dylan Brody

Relatively Painless by Dylan Brody

My only complaint is that I wanted more, which is a good complaint to have. It made me laugh and cry and then laugh again and then pee and then cry. Lots of fluids lost. But in a good way. A book to make you appreciate the tragically funny and beautiful horror of family.

- Jenny Lawson, Author Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Furiously Happy

Daniel Grunman remembers his grandmother telling him, We're Jews. We don't believe in tragedy. We believe in horror, atrocity and injustice. And we recognize all of them as inherently hilarious.

The Grunmans consider themselves a supremely functional family, in that they manage a wry self-awareness about the drinking, the pot smoking, the long-seething resentments, the brooding jealousies and the perpetual, judgmental subtext. In twenty hilariously poignant flashbulb vignettes a family comes to light, revealed in lean exchanges of unconscious cruelty and recognizable evasion.

With deft, delicate brush strokes, award-winning playwright and humorist Dylan Brody delivers a family so specific that we fear we trespass on their intimacy. We observe behavior in such startling detail because our tour guide effortlessly guides us to those small bits that matter most: the fingertip manipulations of a cocktail napkin, the generational echo of an inflective grunt. We watch them behave, we hear them speak, we learn their tells.

Deaths, losses, betrayals and slights resonate along umbilical bonds of familial connection.

Secrets will be revealed. Son, father, mother and daughter will lash out at one another and reach out toward one another. Words will be spoken and silences will descend. Jokes will be written. It will never be too soon.

Brody, Dylan: - Award-winning playwright, author, humorist, story-teller, and diligently snappy dresser, Dylan Brody has been writing and coaching other writers for more than thirty years. He has performed a good deal of his own written work, including story-telling specials that stream globally, a solo-show based on one of those specials that toured internationally, and radio appearances that broadcast to varying degrees. As a humorist he has appeared on Showtime's The Green Room with Paul Provenza, The New York Public Library's Tribute to George Carlin (where he's pretty sure Whoopi flirted with him) and has been David Sedaris' hand-picked opener several times for West Coast appearances.

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ISBN 13	9781649219015
ISBN 10	1649219016
Title	Relatively Painless
Author	Dylan Brody
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atmosphere Press
Year published	2020-12-01
Number of pages	216
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