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

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

Kate Sweeney

216 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Someone dies. What happens next?A family inters its matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the Atlantic. Another holds a memorial weenie roast at a green burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a ...

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