This memoir offers a compassionate and educational reflection on death and the rituals surrounding it. Despite minor flaws like occasional confusion over time periods and excessive exclamation marks, it provides valuable insights into our cultural practices for saying goodbye and coping with grief.
Reading this memoir, I was occasionally confused about which decade we were in, and an overuse of exclamation marks was distracting. But these are minor criticisms of what is a profoundly compassionate, educational reflection on death, and the rites we’ve developed to help us say goodbye and to support us in our grief.
McGowan’s wise elder words, so conversational in style, are like finding yourself in a cosy pub by the fire with an extraordinary community ritual leader, and getting the chance to talk to him for hours, about what only he knows
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