Part of my problem with this book might be that I came into this expecting something different: more stories from her time working at the crematory and less personal story away from that. There are things about her life before, during, and after that I didn't feel I needed to know; I was hoping for far less memoir. (This is a problem for me with a lot of non-fiction books ostensibly about topics I'm interested in that turn out to be far more about the author's life. I don't know you, author, and often don't actually want to.)
I read this book years before the death of my grandmother. I have to say that I really appreciated having an expert makeup her body for the open casket viewing, because she looked like my grandmother again, who thoughout her life never went out the door without makeup and high heels and her hair dyed (well into her 90s) but in her five-month-long final decline stopped, and that was how we got the feeling that she didn't have much longer left. It was the way I wanted to remember her, when she was healthier and happier.
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Date: 2023-02-23 09:14 am (UTC)I read this book years before the death of my grandmother. I have to say that I really appreciated having an expert makeup her body for the open casket viewing, because she looked like my grandmother again, who thoughout her life never went out the door without makeup and high heels and her hair dyed (well into her 90s) but in her five-month-long final decline stopped, and that was how we got the feeling that she didn't have much longer left. It was the way I wanted to remember her, when she was healthier and happier.