Description: This Partys Dead by Buist, Erica, ISBN 1800181396, ISBN-13 9781800181397, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “[A] rollicking, globe-trotting death adventure…”—The Brooklyn Rail
What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleans)
By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies.
With Mexico’s Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world – one for every day they didn’t find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – This Party’s Dead is the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all. Now available in paperback.
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Book Title: This Party's Dead : Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Unbound
Topic: Death & Dying, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Erica Buist
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
