Way to Go
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spence, Alan, PUBLISHER: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Growing up in Glasgow as the son of an undertaker isn't easy for young Neil McGraw. His peers tease him mercilessly, the local girls ignore him, and his father punishes him by locking him in the coffin-filled basement. Neil's refusal to consider entering the morbid family business strains relations with his father, who is already resentful of his wife's death giving birth to his son. Things come to a head when Neil is caught entertaining a young lady in one of custom caskets and he runs away to bohemian London where he befriends a rag-tag group of hippies and finds happiness. But death and its quandaries follow Neil and he soon flees again, traveling the world for sixteen years seeking the answer to the question that has haunted him since youth: What happens when you die?When his father dies, Neil and company return to Glasgow and take over the family business, with a decidedly unconventional twist. Funerals, burials, and caskets are designed as custom works of art, celebrating the life and individuality of the deceased, and raising more than a few eyebrows.