A review by joshgauthier
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat

4.0

"The Art of Death" is a melancholy--and at times, beautiful--book that weaves memoir with literary examination to explore ideas of life and loss and how writers--throughout time and across a spectrum of experiences--have worked to capture the complexity surrounding the final moments of a life. Danticat takes an experience that is both universal and deeply personal and skillfully works through the questions in a text that is easy to read but that also manages to capture--or at least glimpse--truths that are often difficult to put into words.