The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking.

For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life’s work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch’s signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precis...