American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning by Kate Sweeney

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

Kate Sweeney

232 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed.One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1...

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