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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes [electronic resource] / Caitlin Doughty.

Doughty, Caitlin, (author.). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Caitlin Doughty. (Cast).

Summary:

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life's work. With an original voice that combines fearless curiosity and mordant wit, Caitlin tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters, gallows humor, and vivid characters (both living and very dead). Describing how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes), and cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes, Caitlin becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the deceased. Her eye-opening memoir shows how our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead). In the spirit of her popular Web series, "Ask a Mortician," Caitlin's engaging narrative style makes this otherwise scary topic both approachable and profound.

Electronic resources

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781490646275
  • ISBN: 1490646272
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 44 min.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2014.
  • Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:
Flex title available through hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Caitlin Doughty.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject:
Doughty, Caitlin.
Undertakers and undertaking > Anecdotes.
Undertakers and undertaking > Biography.
Autobiography.
Biography.
Death.
Manners and customs.
Social sciences.
Genre:
Biographies.

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