Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory [Paperback]

Demonically funny.Frank&philosophical&engaging, and even wicked.Upbeat, brave and brilliantly, morbidly curious&Her measure of society is fierce, right on, and radical&[A]n important and timely book.It may well blow your mind wide open.Think Sloane Crosley meetsIn a movingand often funnymemoir about working in a crematorium and other parts of the death industry, Caitlin Doughty argues for radical change in how we face the details of death.Demonically funny dispatches.Doughty&a trustworthy tour guide&keeps us laughing most of the way.Alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, fascinating and freaky, vivid and morbid,Caitlin Doughty takes you to places you didnt know you wanted to go. Fascinating, funny, and so very necessary,This book absolutely must be read, if only to remind all of us that exercise, organic food, and plastic surgery only work up to a point. Doughty is my kind of death crusadercompassionate, unblinking, and very, very funny. Morbid and illuminating (