Product Description : A relentlessly honest coming of death story this psychological memoir of comedian Glenn Rockowitzs ongoing struggle with cancer offers a vivid glimpse into the landscape of a mind when it is faced with the constant threat of death The story takes us from Glenns unexpected diagnosis of three months at best just days before the birth of his only child to his miraculous remission and the ironic death of his father It is a journey that is by turns heartbreaking painfully funny misanthropic loving and ultimately heroic Rodeo In Joliet tramples the Hallmark cliches and platitudes of traditional cancer survival stories and presents in their place an experience that leaves the reader in awe and grateful for his or her every breath