Lately I've been on a run of non-fiction--this is unusual for me because (and I know I say this every time I review a non-fiction book) non-fiction and I generally don't get along. Every once in a while though, I find a non-fiction book that sticks and I read it AND I finish it. Nine Years Under: Coming of Age In An Inner-City Funeral Home is Sheri Booker's first book... well, actually it isn't because during the course of the book she talks a little about how she's published a collection of poetry. But this is her first prose book. I saw this title come up in the New Titles list in the online catalog, and since I'd recently come across a review for another memoir set in a funeral home and added it to my reading list, I thought I'd request Nine Years Under and read it. This is a quick and easy read and Booker's writing style is easily accessible. There are a few quibbles--for example, there are a few passages in which the chronology and/or th...
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