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Author:

Jokinen, Tom.

Title:

Curtains : adventures of an undertaker-in-training / Tom Jokinen.

Edition:

1st Da Capo Press ed.

Publisher:

Da Capo Pr.,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

279 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Jokinen, Tom.
Undertakers and undertaking--Canada--Anecdotes.
Undertakers and undertaking--Canada--Biography.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Canada--Anecdotes.
Reality memoirs.

Summary:

Tom Jokinen began to seriously question the secular funeral rites that are taking over the industry. The question had such a hard grip on his Finnish soul that he decided to become an apprentice undertaker. This book is about what he found, from the mundane to the macabre. For anyone who's secretly wondered why they paid $2000 for a 5-lb bag of dust--or questioned whether that dust was really the person they loved--Curtains lifts the veil on the funeral industry in the 21st century.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

0306818914
9780306818912 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)449858784

LCCN:

2010920629

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

NSPC983 -- Manly Public Library (Manly)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

MSPA553 -- Wesley Public Library (Wesley)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)