A Dirty Job

A Dirty Job ($16), the latest work of phenom Christopher Moore, is a curiously creative novel that peers into the underworld, but with just enough humor to make the demons seem like a punch line. Charlie Asher accidently becomes Death and gets taken on a six year long wild ride as one of a dozen or so grim reapers in San Francisco. They used to have coffee together, but then voices started coming out of the storm drains and they decided it was best for the balance of the universe to not communicate. Add in a small army of 14" tall squirrel people made up of different animal parts and human souls (based off of this artist) and you've got yourself a book worth reading.