Treehab eBook

In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural worldand an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness.
            InTreehabnamed after a retreat cabin in rural OntarioSmith muses how he has always sought the path less traveled. He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable stand-up comic could (Lou Gehrigs Disease?  But I dont even like baseball!) and explores his complex, fulfilling experience of fatherhood, both before and after the onset of the disease.
          Stories of his writing and performing lifepunctuated by hilariously cutting jokes that comedians tell only to each otherare interspersed with tales of Smiths enduring relationship with nature: boyhood sojourns in the woods of upstate New York and adult explorations of the remote Alaskan wilderness; snakes and turtles, rocks and minerals; open sky and forest canopy; God and friendshipall recurring touchstones that inspire him to fight for his survival and for the future of his two children.
          Aiming his potent, unflinching wit at global warming, equal rights, sex, dogs, Thoreau, and more, Smith demonstrates here the inimitable insight that has made him a beloved voice of a generation. He reminds us that life is perplexing, beautiful, strange, and entirely worth celebrating.