The Mortician's Child surprises, horrifies, appeals to voyeuristic tendencies and, at the same time, tugs at our heartstrings.
She's a little girl for whom death is a very big problem.
Her father scares her.
There's a casket with a stranger in it in their living room, a trip in a hearse to an insane asylum, and obituaries read with commentary to her during dinner (how easy it is to die).
As she grows up, she shines a light into her father's troubled behavior and, by doing so, shines a light in.
Windsor Westcott Publishing The mortician's child: the casket in our living room, the hearse outside the dairy queen, and the rest of my life six feet above/kathleen l. hawkins
