by Tom Jokinen · Da Capo Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780306818912
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«Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training» is the memoir by Tom Jokinen, published by Da Capo Press in paperback (279 pages, in English).
Tom Jokinen leaves his job at forty-four to train as an undertaker. Over a year he explores the funeral world, between routine tasks and unsettling episodes, examining options such as green burials or ashes in artificial reefs and wondering whether tradition survives the rise of cremation.
It went on sale in March 2010. The action takes place in Canada. The author is a radio producer and audiovisual journalist.
For readers of memoirs and non-fiction with black humour; also of interest to anyone curious about the funeral industry.
