Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training

At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff.

If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you'd have Curtains.

Author: Tom Jokinen
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/23/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.22w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780306818912
ISBN10: 0306818914
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement

About the Author
Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has also worked as a railroad operator and an editorial cartoonist. Jokinen spent two years in medical school, where he dissected two human cadavers. He and his wife live in Ottawa.