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The book of resting places : a personal history of where we lay the dead / Thomas Mira y Lopez.

by Mira y Lopez, Thomas, author.

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Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2017]

Burial -- Social aspects.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Mourning customs.

9781619021235 (hardcover) :

1619021234 hardcover

194 pages ; 22 cm

Memory, memorial -- Monument valley -- A plan for the afterlife -- Overburden -- The path to the saints -- Capricci -- The rock shop -- Parallax -- The eternal comeback -- Coda, codex.

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 a singular collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author's search for a place to process grief. Mira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds--from the world's largest cryonics institute in southern Arizona to a set of Roman catacombs being digested by modern bacteria, to his family's burial plots in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to a nineteenth-century desert cemetery that was relocated for the building of a modern courthouse. The Book of Resting Places examines these overlooked spaces and what they tell us about ourselves and the passing of those we love--how we grieve them, and how we attempt to forget them.

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