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

3.0

I didn't feel so much as if it was about working in the funeral home as it was about the relationships among the people who worked there. If this had been fiction, and funeral homes were not so fascinating, this would probably be a bonus. [return][return]The editing wasn't very tight - sometimes terms were re-explained chapters after they had been introduced and used without further explanation. (Blue dinghy for example.) It seemed more like Sheri was just noting down her set of stories that she might tell to friends, not making sure they all fit together as a single story - is it busiest Thanksgiving through Christmas or October, January and February? If it were just anecdotes told over the span of months, I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed.[return][return]I think she did learn a lot from the experience, but it seemed like it was more the growing up lessons of being loyal to people who have no reason to be loyal to you, and that a crush realized may not be all it's cracked up to be. Lessons that could have come from a job anywhere.