โ Scribed by Marion Winik
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"Winik has many gifts as a writer, but one I appreciate the most is her ability to write about the hardest, darkest subjects with a light, knowing hand." --Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild , in praise for The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel, The Baltimore Book of the Dead , another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir.
Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in Marion Winik's native New Jersey, moves through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and settles in her current home of Baltimore.
Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around...
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