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From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers World of Flowers and Lost Ocean

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade Fiction_Gift_Guide and has spawned an entireA National Book Award Finalist "One of the most life affirming books I have read in a long time brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor." Tom Vanderbilt "Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves