Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
272 pages; W.W. Norton & Co
The creator of the Web series "Ask a Mortician," a woman some refer to as "handmaiden to the underworld," delivers demonically funny dispatches in her memoir/memento mori.
— Sarah Meyer