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: 9781592407620

ISBN-10: 1592407625

ISBN-13: 9781592407620

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sheri Booker

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A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, Sheri found comfort in the funeral home and soon had the run of the place. 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 intimate moments of grief and despair. But along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.26" wide x 7.94" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English