Isbn: 9781476761213 - the removers: a memoir (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 179 pages. Ex-libraryA dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living. For almost tw enty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not m y sister's either, nor my mother's. A literature professor at La Salle Universi ty, Andrew Meredith's father was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual m isconduct. It's a transgression Andrew cannot forgive, for it brought about long -lasting familial despair. In the wake of the scandal, Andrew's parents limp alo ng, trapped in an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Andrew treads water, stuck in a k ind of suspended adolescence-falling in and out of school, moving blindly from o ne half-hearted relationship to the next, slowly killing the nights drinking bee r and listening to music with his childhood friends. Broke, Andrew moves back h ome to his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia and takes a job alon gside his father as a remover, the name for those unseen, unsung workers who tak e away the bodies of those who die at home. He describes, as only a professional can do, the intimate, horrific, poignant, and occasionally morbidly comedic asp ects of handling the dead. Just how do you carry a 500-pound corpse down winding stairs? What actually happens to pacemakers, tooth fillings, surgical screws, a rtificial hips, and anything else that the deceased has within his or her body? Andrew begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but as a sympathetic, imperfect man who loves his family despite his flaw s. Eventually the chip on his shoulder starts to lose its weight. Poetic witho ut being florid, and with the literary ability to transform the naturally grotes.…