Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training

Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-TrainingAt forty four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is

At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff.

If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you'd have Curtains.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/23/2010
ISBN: 9780306818912
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.22w x 0.76d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2010 pg. 29
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 10
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 236