Tompkins County Public Library Community Read discussion

A view of aging, illness and death through the eyes of a young newspaper intern who reluctantly takes over the obituary desk when his mentor dies. It's a sad piece with Alexie's signature humor that lightens it up.

It's interesting how "salt" comes up repeatedly throughout this collection. Salt preserves, salt heals.

who writes the obituary of the obituary writer? This would be a fun writing prompt. Well... maybe not "fun"... but interesting...

I agree it would be an interesting prompt! In Zee's workshop, she used "write your own obituary" as one of the prompts. There was a really good piece that came out of that.

Oh spooky! I must have known that in my lizard brain ;)