Like a Dog is poignant, funny and stark, a story about the rudderless freedom and beauty of a low-stakes life, and how love can survive in a deeply wounded family. Paloma is a skateboarder in her early thirties, a free-spirited young woman living on the margins, aimlessly working low-pay jobs and finding happiness in disreputable places. She struggles to have a relationship with her brother Peter, whose self-destructive drug addiction makes it nearly impossible. Despite the pain of navigating a distressing sibling relationship and the havoc it wreaks on her own emotional life, Paloma's outlook is generally playful and irreverent. Ruminating on the human condition as she works part-time as a gardener, she offers up her philosophy on life?”Why can't we humans be more like dogs . . . wouldn't it be great if all a mother wanted was a butt scratch?”
At times the perspective switches from Paloma's to Peter's, and we get insight into a junky's life, where death by overdose looms, but getting off heroin feels impossible. Working for a pot grower in Humboldt County, Peter gets Paloma a job, and she shines in her new role as a weed broker for celebrity clients, making good money for the first time in her life. Suddenly, she has the freedom to consider her dream of becoming a stand-up comedian.
Tara Jepsen is a writer and actor living in Los Angeles. She's had a feature role in the award-winning series, Transparent, and her writing has been published by The Believer and elsewhere.
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