Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Doughty) - Book Reviews

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Doughty...uses her work as a crematorium operator...to challenge the way we view death.... Her descriptions about picking dead babies up from the hospital prove particularly difficult to read. Nonetheless, Doughty does stare death in the face by tracking down numerous ancient rituals...and celebrating the natural function of decomposition.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) [Doughty’s] sincere, hilarious, and perhaps life-altering memoir is a must-read for anyone who plans on dying.
Booklist


For the author, the way forward to a healthier relationship with the end-of-life experience is to reclaim "the process of dying" by ending the ignorance and fear attached to it.... A witty, wise and mordantly wise-cracking memoir and examination of the American way of death.
Kirkus Reviews