Notes of an Undertaker: a Study of Life in a Ghastly Industry
About This Novel
Like all poets, Thomas Lynch used death as his theme, but he was unique in that he was a mortician in a small Michigan town, hired to bury and burn the dead. As he works, he remains keenly attuned to the words of love and sorrow conveyed through death. In this book, there are golfers playing golf by the graveside, gourmets and hypochondriacs, lovers, suicides, cruel and unfortunate deaths, and more touching stories that are not cruel and unfortunate. Some funerals are joyful, while other weddings are tear-jerking. "Undertaker's Notes" is filled with the dual voices of witnesses and participants. Lynch stood between life and death, with anger, surprise, fear, and calm, trying to get a glimpse of the meaning of death to life that we all will eventually understand, and conveying the warnings of the dead to the living.
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