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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
18 reviews
lookingformybookmark's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Cannibalism
Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Excrement, Dementia, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy
nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicide, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Blood, Excrement, and Dementia
alicroz34's review
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism
mcornell's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Excrement, and Medical content
aquakirst's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Dementia, Medical trauma, and Classism
Minor: Excrement
spookily's review
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Violence, Dementia, War, and Classism
Minor: Fatphobia, Sexism, Excrement, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
asiaasiaja's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Fatphobia, Xenophobia, and Colonisation
___christina___'s review
5.0
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Medical content, and Grief
Descriptions and discussions of tough topics are written empathicly and humorously.samlikesbooks's review
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug abuse and Dementia
gwendle_vs_literature's review
4.0
Accidental pairing that I now recommend:
I happened to read this immediately after finishing “As I Lay Dying” — which may seem like I was on a theme, but it was just a coincidental timing of wait lists at the library. However, if you want to compare a factual discussion of death and our rituals surrounding it (past and present) with a classic of American literature on that topic written and set in a time after more modern death “management” (ie embalming and/or quick burials) had taken firm root, but when poverty and a desire to honour the last wishes of the dead lead a family to ignore those conventions, then it’s a pairing I can recommend. Caitlin’s information certainly made Faulkner’s novel more interesting for me by providing extra layers of context. Particularly if you have to read Faulkner for an English class, pairing it with “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” could make it more enjoyable for you, and could also provide some good essay topics.
Graphic: Body horror and Death
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail