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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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November selection for Truesday Night Books to be discussed on 11/28

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Ninna
Mar 26, 2021 rated it really liked it
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I was expecting another "Quackery" type book that would just be a retelling of gross, but humorous anecdotes about the funeral industry. It turned out to be much more a personal story of the author's experience with death and the business of death. Even though she does work in that industry, she relates how it helped her understand and appreciate life and death and come to terms with death. I really liked the personal side of this story and it made it much more relatable. Of course, there are fu ...more
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Melinda Beatty
Sep 16, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
A wonderful, funny and thoughtful discourse on the subject of how Western culture gets death all wrong.
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Lauren
Sep 16, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Julie
Sep 17, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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