![]() ![]() Even if you have never laid eyes on a dead body, you’ll come away from this book feeling one step closer.Īs a 23-year-old with an intense curiosity for death rituals myself, it was easy to relate to Doughty. She takes readers through what she sees, feels and thinks when she watches someone being embalmed. ![]() What makes Doughty’s book so engaging is not only her personal brand of sardonic humor but her deep connection with the subjects she discusses. It’s not exactly a glamorous Hollywood rags to riches tale, but Doughty doesn’t seem to mind. It follows our narrator through her experiences from doing the grunt work at a crematory to earning her funeral director license. From her opening line “A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves,” I could tell this isn’t your run-of-the-mill memoir.Ĭaitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory is at once laugh-out-loud funny and achingly tender. ![]()
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