Quirky, weird, bawdy, laugh-out-loud funny, eye-rolling 13-year old boy (also 36-year old man) humor, poignant, disturbing, heart-felt. Just some of the many ways to describe Moore's works and A Dirty Job fits that bill.
A unique take on death that will have you wondering where would your soul reside once you shed your mortal coil.
Summary from GoodReads: Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job, but hey! Somebody's got to do it
Quotes: "There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality...Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin."
"Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both."
"...hospice worker...seen in the homes of the dying, helping to deliver them into the next world with as much comfort and dignity and even joy as they could gather...rather than become detached from, or callous to their job, they become involved with every patient and every family. They were present."
"Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves."
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