3.5
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live.
Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."
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“I was going to give this a 3, because despite our vastly different opinions on religion and abortion, the writing is good, the arguments are logical, and any essay baring an opposing view still feels like it leaves space and compassion for that opposition. I can respect that.
However. He lost me with the essay where he hates his cat. He loathes this cat. He wants the cat to die for the sin of being a bystander cat in the crumbling of a marriage, a symbol snapped up from the crosshairs to carry the weight of his sense of overwhelm and rejection. He puts this onus on the cat without any room for reconcile, vilifying the cat, deciding it should always represent burden and failure. I’m not even a diehard “cat-person,” but seriously, fuck this guy and his hatred for the cat. Two stars.”

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