Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Caitlin Doughty 2014

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
death memoir death industry culture

Our Take

Doughty worked in a crematory and wrote about death with the dark humour of someone who handles it daily. The book is part memoir, part cultural critique — arguing that our terror of dead bodies has made us worse at dying. Funny, frank, and quietly devastating.

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