Nine Years Under Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

Name: Nine Years Under Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
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ISBN: 9781592407125

ISBN-10: 1592407129

ISBN-13: 9781592407125

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sheri Booker

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Six Feet UndermeetsThe Wirein a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in BaltimoreSheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in the funeral home, and soon has the run of the place, from its sacred chapels to the terrifying embalming room.With AIDS and gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black men, Wylie was never short on business. As families came together to bury one of their own, Booker was privy to their most…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.55" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English