"Death, Brooklyn, and the Gritty Side of Grace" is an irreverent look at home hospice work in the wilds of Brooklyn. Through the eyes of our heroine, a social work intern new to death and dying, we meet a man who dies in his family's living room with nowhere for the body to go; a middle-aged man who angrily, tenaciously fights death (and fights his hospice worker); a cancer patient, who is eerily—frighteningly—similar to her; and the unlikely mentor, a Jamaican nurse, who provides guidance and spiritual insight through her friendship. Both darkly comic and spiritually uplifting, it’s the story of how, immersing herself in death, a Gen X-er found her life’s work.