The Embalmer - by Anne-Renée Caillé (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An embalmer and his daughter at a diner. She's taking notes.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead.</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Quietly poetic, <i>The Embalmer</i> glimpses at something most would rather look away from.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Using language that courageously refuses to wrap the cadavers in hypocritical shroud of lyricism, [the author] transcribes without flourish what she harvested, armed with a bias for the unsaid and for the silence contrasted with an era when death is too often buried in pop psychology babble. --<i>Le Devoir</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Anne-Reneé Caillé lives in Montreal. This is her first novel.
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