The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade Fiction_Gift_Guide and the undeniable attraction simmering

and the undeniable attraction simmering between them is getting harder to ignore

But when an old friend is murdered

told in multiple-POV chapters that follow an irresistible cast of characters through an incredibly imagined world

once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths

An essay on how Dave approaches creativity (Here’s a hint: you don’t have to think outside of the box

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade Fiction_Gift_Guide and the undeniable attraction simmeringA 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