A review by krstnkay
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by Thomas Lynch

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

I have a literary crush on an undertaker. 💘

Once you read Thomas Lynch, you probably will, too. 

He’s an essayist, poet, and small-town funeral director in Michigan where he has probed the literary and mortuary arts for nearly 40 years. He writes crazy beautifuly about what he’s learned about life and mortality from standing so close to the edge, and I can’t get enough of his words. Lynch’s perspective as an undertaker, combined with his talent as a writer, is so unique, so needed, and so, so good. 

With this collection of his most beloved essays, you can savor the ones that hit closest to home for you, skip the ones that don’t, and then go about your life more enamored of it because Lynch has helped you see yourself and the people you love in a whole new light.