The Science of Leaving Omaha by Carter W. Lewis
After dropping out of school and surviving a rough turn as a Save Mart clerk, Iris was given a job at the Belladonna Funeral Home’s basement crematory. Three years later she is trying to find her way out of the job - and out of Omaha. One winter evening a young man named Baker breaks into the funeral home. He has come to say goodbye to his recently deceased wife, Ruth-Ellen, who was killed in a bungled burglary and lies within a body bag awaiting cremation. Now Iris and Baker will spend a very humorous, clumsy and erratic evening together trying to understand the dismantling of their working-class lives, before the police arrive and they are held accountable for present or past transgressions.