My main character, Exa Faye Dowden, is a recent widow who joins Maribeth Graves on a quest to find and make peace with the person of Death. Through Exa Faye, readers get to experience grief through snarky wit, a cranky worldview, and a willingness to be adventurous. She’s the key to the question above: Can death and dying be funny? The answer is no—death isn’t funny. It’s painful and hard. But what is funny is us. How we relate and react to death can be humorous. We’re a quir