My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die

"A long meditation on death, dying, and our attitudes to mortality" this memoir by a BAFTA award winning filmmaker is "healing and somehow life-affirming." —The Guardian

Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.

Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently depar...