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A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black
funeral home in Baltimore
Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie
Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job
would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling
from the death of her beloved great aunt, Sheri found comfort in
the funeral home and soon had the run of the place. With AIDS and
gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black men,
Wylie was never short on business.
As families came together to bury one of their own, Booker was
privy to their most intimate moments of grief and despair. But
along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of dark humor:
brawls between mistresses and widows, and car crashes at McDonald's
with dead bodies in tow. While she never got over her terror of the
embalming room, Booker learned to expect the unexpected and to
never, ever cry. "Nine Years Under" offers readers an unbelievable
glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives.
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