{"product_id":"9781619021358","title":"The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Resting Places\u003c\/i\u003e is Mira y Lopez’s account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He’s looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mira 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.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177409790192,"sku":"9781619021358","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619021358_p0.jpg?v=1763855582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619021358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}