Excerpt from We All Want Impossible Things

CATHERINE NEWMAN
“What do you think happens after you die?” she says. “Oh!” I say. “Gosh.” I was raised in a fully atheist household, so not much is the short answer. I was raised in a fully atheist household, so not much is the short answer. “Just toss me in the dumpster when I go!” my dad likes to announce, and when I’m like, “Um, Dad, I think funerals are actually more about—” he interrupts me. “In the dumpster!” “Okay!” I say. “The dumpster it is!”