Benjamin Benjamin is not a likable guy. Even when you factor in the pity you feel for him over the loss of his house, wife, and children, he doesn’t come across very well. Ben’s kind of a self-involved, misogynistic jerk.

After his life went kablooey, stay-at-home-dad Ben took a class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving and becomes a home health aide for nineteen-year-old Trevor, who is suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that leaves him twisted like a pretzel, wheelchair bound, and kind of a jerk too.

These two unlikable jerks form an unlikely friendship in Jonathan Evison’s The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and somehow create a story that is funny and, damn the cliche, heartwarming.

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