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Two Floors Above Grief
Kevin M O'Connor
其他書名
A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We Called Home
出版
18th Floor Publishing
, 2022-11-19
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Family & Relationships / General
Humor / Topic / Marriage & Family
ISBN
9798987021309
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fBSFzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O'Connor knew his house was different than his friends. A stately, three-story, nineteenth century Victorian. His bed tucked next to a stage in a former ballroom. His uncle and aunt lived with their three daughters on the floor below. A large electric organ in a bay window of the first-floor mortuary business. Stacked caskets and an embalming room in the basement. Nobody had a house like his.Set from the 1920s to '80s, Two Floors Above Grief is full of fascinating details and anecdotes about life as a funeral home child, brought to vivid life through a compelling collection of letters written by O'Connor and various family members who lived and worked together at the O'Connor Funeral Home in Elgin, Illinois. Blending the twenty-four-hour business of death and its constantly ringing phone with the joy experienced by his families through music, pets, backyard basketball games, co-parenting, faith, and celebrations, O'Connor offers a reflective love letter to the affirmation of family love and embracing life.