Over My Dead Body av Greg Melville

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<B>Journalist Greg Melville’s <I>Over My Dead Body</I> is a lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. </B><BR/><BR/><B>“Astonishing. . . fascinating . . . powerful. . .This clever, sensitive book gives us a new way to think about death, not as the final chapter, but as a window onto life in America.” —<I>New York Times Book Review</I></B><BR/><BR/> The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead.<BR/><BR/> Melville’s <I>Over My Dead Body</I> is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. C