Before his death from cancer in 2012 at the age of 47, David Rakoff was many things: a best-selling essayist, a journalist, a screenwriter of an Oscar-winning short film, a theater director and a contributor to radio's This American Life. He was gay, Jewish, Canadian and American, attaining dual citizenship in 2003. He had a Wildean appreciation for paradox and a talent for epigrams too. ("There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring," he once wrote, "as a vicarious sadness.")
It's proper, then, that his charming new novel, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, is also many things: a posthumous debut, an...
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