The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619021234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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O'Connor Fellow in Creative Nonfiction at Colgate University. He has published in numerous journals (including a “Notable” Best American Essay selection) and has attended Bread Loaf and MacDowell. This is his first book. . Thomas Mira y Lopez earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and was most recently the Olive B
This is a book to savor." Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit In the aftermath of his father's untimely death and his family's indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez became obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The result is The Book of Resting Places, a singular collection of essays that weaves history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author’s search for a place to process grief.Across three continents and ten different resting places, Mira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds. "Mira y Lopez is a stunning writer and his debut book, a tender and adventurous exploration of the intimate distances we share with the dead, deserves to be widely read. The Book of Resting Places’s invigorating blend of ideas creates a relief map of our memorials while opening up the liminal spaces created not only when someone dies, but when our memories of them also begin to pass.The Book of Resting Places is a roving elegy, a highly personal and startling
But the deeper we go into Thomas Mira y Lopez's MC Escher painting of a collection, the more we realize that perhaps it is us, not the dead, who haunt the past. Artful sentences mirror, page after page, his artful mind. An excellent meditation on his father's death and his mother's preparations for her own, this book's loneliness is more than matched by its curiosity and its beauty.” Ander Monson, author of Vanishing Point "Mira y Lopez is a stunning writer and his debut book, a tender and adventurous exploration of the intimate distances we share with the dead, deserves to be widely read. This is a book to savor." Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. With formal intelligence and quiet wit, he has found death to be a spur to reflection and wholehearted embrace of life. Praise for The Book of Resting Places "Each place in The Book of Resting Pla