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The Embalmer
The Embalmer | Anne-Reneé Caillé
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Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career—from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of colour into a corpse’s skin for that blushing look—the narrator must look her parents’ deaths, and her relationship with them, straight in the eye.
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DrJAdMerricksson
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The 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. 📚📚📚📚

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jessinikkip
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At 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

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GirlWellRead
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The 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.