{"product_id":"9781626369887","title":"In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1969, Charlie Wilkins was a young man in search of a job. Turned down by a dozen potential employers—including Shubang Used Tire and Dick’s Nifty Car Wash—Wilkins landed an unlikely job at a vast corporate cemetery as a “bone waxer,” handling “bird-houses” (urns), and earning an invaluable education about life as a caregiver in death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From reckless disinterments, to a mid-summer gravediggers’ strike, to the illegal shifting of bones from untended graves, In the Land of Long Fingernails is a coming-of-age story among extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It offers up a Barnum-esque cavalcade of “slay carpenters,” “dirt nappers,” mavericks and misfits, shifty plot salesmen, and drug-addled gravediggers, yet it also shows us their uncertainty and superstitions, and their relentless gallows humor amid the inevitable reminders of what it is, finally, to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the funny and dark spirit of Thomas Lynch’s best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Undertaking\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Roach’s hit \u003ci\u003eStiff\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSix Feet Under\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Long Fingernails\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament not just to unexpected friendship but also to late sixties culture, and to the art and power of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136196428016,"sku":"9781626369887","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626369887_p0.jpg?v=1763869789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626369887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}