Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker

Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

Sheri Booker

261 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction memoir reflective medium-paced

Description

Six Feet Under meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea...

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informative 85%
reflective 85%
emotional 57%
dark 28%
mysterious 14%
sad 14%
tense 14%

Pace

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fast 25%
slow 12%

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