pickThe Embalmer by Anne-Renée Caillé has been translated from its original French. Given the layout, I'm guessing the little vignettes are poem stories, though in English they are more prose. It is the musings of a daughter regarding her father's job as an embalmer, how he joined those mysterious ranks, and unusual cases he shared. 📚📚📚📚
pickAt first I found this book hard to get into because of the writing style, each story is very short and not very detailed. However, the style quickly grew on me. Because it wasnt very detailed, it wasn't overbearing on gore and made for a good and quick read #NetGalley
pickThe retelling of these cases in note format works perfectly—it is as if the reader is the notetaker. His daughter is trying just as hard as the reader to make sense of her father's life which was spent staring at death.
Fascinating, sad, gruesome, and isolating. This haunting book will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
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