{"product_id":"9781619021235","title":"The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Mira y Lopez’s first book is a thoughtful, intriguing collection of 10 personal essays dealing with the dead and where they end up . . . These are wide-ranging and often tender meditations on death.\" — \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of his father’s untimely death and his family’s indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez be­came obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The re­sult is a singu­lar collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author’s search for a place to process grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds—from the world’s larg­est cryonics institute in southern Arizona to a set of Roman catacombs being digested by modern bacteria, to his family’s burial plots in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to a nineteenth-century desert cemetery that was relocated for the building of a modern court­house. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Resting Places\u003c\/i\u003e examines these over­looked spaces and what they tell us about our­selves and the passing of those we love—how we grieve them, and how we attempt to forget them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055312814320,"sku":"9781619021235","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619021235_p0.jpg?v=1763855754","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619021235","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}