Kareem Parkins-Brown¿s highly-anticipated pamphlet is an audacious, richly plural celebration of friends and selves, present and otherwise. In Parkins-Brown¿s hands, language bends like an illusionist¿s spoon¿a dazzling, fisheye-lens distortion of daily grief, absurdity and communion¿while reminding us always that the trick is to carry on living.