{"product_id":"the-book-of-resting-places-a-personal-history-of-where-we-lay-the-dead-isbn-9781619021235","title":"The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Resting Places\u003c\/i\u003e is Mira y Lopez’s account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He’s looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of his father’s untimely death and his family’s indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez became obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The result is a singular collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author’s search for a place to process grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds—from the world’s largest cryonics institute in southern Arizona to a set of Roman catacombs being digested by modern bacteria, to his family’s burial plots in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to a nineteenth–century desert cemetery that was relocated for the building of a modern courthouse. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Resting Places\u003c\/i\u003e examines these overlooked spaces and what they tell us about ourselves and the passing of those we love—how we grieve them, and how we attempt to forget them.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302910808293,"sku":"NP9781619021235","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781619021235.jpg?v=1767738480","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-book-of-resting-places-a-personal-history-of-where-we-lay-the-dead-isbn-9781619021235","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}