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American Afterlives Reinventing Death in the Twenty First Century
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Shannon Lee Dawdy
Tracy Poe
, December 02, 2021
Witty, creepy, haunting, and touching by turns, this book on how Americans face death and honor their loved ones through their funeral rituals had me laughing out loud AND reaching for the tissues. The author is an archaeologist and anthropologist, which gives the book intellectual heft. Yet her tone is personal, respectful, and deeply human. The book isn’t specifically about Covid, but it does guide the reader through the death-haunted landscape we’re all living in with compassion and insight. I felt closer to my fellow Americans with every page. A very satisfying read.
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Rosie's War: An Englishwoman's Escape from Occupied France
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Rosemary Say and Noel Holland
Tracy Poe
, August 18, 2011
Wow! What a page-turner! Anyone interested in personal memoirs of WWII should read this book, especially those who have/had relatives who witnessed it and grew up fascinated by their stories. Rosemary Say is a 19-year-old British au pair in France when she finds herself caught up in the German invasion of Paris and is deported to a Nazi prison camp, where she learns to survive under truly frightening conditions. Eventually she escapes and makes her way, by sheer grit and a series of seemingly miraculous turns of fortune, back to England. I chanced upon the book on a trip to Ireland, when my husband and I popped into (what else?) a secondhand bookshop owned by "Rosie's" daughter and son-in-law, who compiled this memoir on her behalf when she became too infirm to do it herself. The story is well-paced, gripping, and vivid. Despite (or perhaps because of) their intervention, Rosemary's voice comes through as clear and authentic as if she had written it herself. Instead of a jumble of anecdotes (which, although being in turn touching, frightening, and hilarious, are all I have left of my grandfather's POW stories), this memoir tells a linear narrative that is no less captivating for being as close to historically accurate as Rosemary's co-authors could make it. A ripping yarn, and a tender tribute to one pretty feisty old gal and every woman of her generation who "KBO'd" it through the war.
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Real Life Of Sebastian Knight
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Vladimir Nabokov
Tracy Poe
, December 03, 2009
I first read this courtesy of my qualifying exams at Reed College in 1989. Apologies to the professor that I cannot remember who assigned it or why. But the book made a lasting impression and I still read it about once a year and am never tired of it. It is a mystery within a mystery within a mystery, &c &c. You will fall, like Alice through the looking glass, into its multi-layered, funhouse-mirror effect. And to think it was Vlad's first book in English! Read Lolita for the sex if you like--but read this if you want to fall in love with the limitless capacity of the English language to reflect and refract back upon the story-teller's art and the meaning of a life itself.
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