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The Baltimore Book of the Dead (2018)

di Marion Winik

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"When Cheryl Strayed was asked by the Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir. Approaching mourning and memory with great care and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in the author's native New Jersey, moves through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and settles in her current home of Baltimore. Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, The Alpha. In this first vignette, Winik introduces locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love, the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia, the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half-century of American life. Joining The Alpha are The Man Who Could Take off His Thumb, The Babydaddy, The Warrior Poetess, and The Thin White Duke, not to mention a miniature poodle and a goldfish. Intimacy and humor are manifest in the economy of each piece, none of which exceeds 400 words, each of which conjures and celebrates a life"--… (altro)
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Brief vignettes of people the author remembers who have died.
Sometimes poignant, sometimes witty, always smartly written. I felt that providing nicknames for the deceased provided a bit more relatability to each - a bit more generality, that they could be stand-ins for anyone with a similarity or relatability that the reader might actually know.
I picked the book up in part because of the title, and expected to find somewhat more about the city. But it was titled more for where the book was written than for where the people lived or stories took place. I found myself trying to figure out where exactly situations happened, which provided another layer of depth to the otherwise succinct snippets of life. ( )
  GoofyOcean110 | Dec 9, 2022 |
I chose a book by a woman author to read for Women's History Month, and so I picked Marion Winik. For those of you not familiar with her work, she was a local regional writer in Austin, TX and then relocated to the East Coast and became a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. She has published a series of books including "First Comes Love" about her experiences being married to a gay man that died from HIV. She has also written books about parenting her two boys from that marriage, "Lunchbox Chronicles", and a series of Books of the Dead. She had gotten feedback that talking about death was depressing. I identify with her tales because we are both Jewish, we are about the same age, and both lived in Austin, TX. I admire her strong spirit and her ability to transform her unconventional life into stories that are relatable to many women from our generation. We didn't want conventional families, we wanted careers and to be to follow our dreams. At our age too, we have outlived many close friends and family members, and surviving those deaths increasingly becomes a part of your daily experiences. At the university I work at, we have students that unfortunately die while they are enrolled here. Often it is traffic accidents as the cause of death, but sometimes it is drugs or alcohol. It is a terrible tragedy that their potential and their young lives are cut so short, but we honor their deaths by having Silver Taps ceremonies in the evenings for the students that have passed away. It is certainly sobering, but honoring the dead is not depressing. ( )
  kerryp | Jul 4, 2020 |
An excellent collection of very short essays about various people the author has had some relationship with who have died. Its amazing how much insight and feeling she is able to convey in only a couple of pages. ( )
  grandpahobo | Sep 26, 2019 |
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"When Cheryl Strayed was asked by the Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir. Approaching mourning and memory with great care and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in the author's native New Jersey, moves through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and settles in her current home of Baltimore. Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, The Alpha. In this first vignette, Winik introduces locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love, the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia, the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half-century of American life. Joining The Alpha are The Man Who Could Take off His Thumb, The Babydaddy, The Warrior Poetess, and The Thin White Duke, not to mention a miniature poodle and a goldfish. Intimacy and humor are manifest in the economy of each piece, none of which exceeds 400 words, each of which conjures and celebrates a life"--

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