John Kenney wanted to write a funny book about death. It’s about life instead.

John Kenney is one of six brothers.In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were talking, a car pulled up carrying the other four brothers. When Kenney noted their arrival, his brother let his head and body slump as if he had just died. “Tell them they’re too late,” Tom said with a sly grin.
From that moment, Kenney’s latest novel, “I See You’ve Ca