The Book of Small Dignities
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The Book of Small Dignities
A fictional funeral director's central Illinois daybook records five small decisions around wakes, burials, and cremations from 1979 to 2018; Note: the notebook and all persons described are fictional, created in the tradition of found-object storytelling.
A gray vinyl daybook from a fictional funeral home in central Illinois follows one director's work from 1979 to 2018. Five entries preserve the small decisions around wakes, burials, and cremations that never make it into an obituary: a blouse under a favorite cardigan, a cigarette burn left in a railroad man's suit, a paper cup beside a hand, a bus transfer returned to a coat pocket, and a baseball game that begins at four.
Note: the notebook and all persons described are fictional, created in the tradition of found-object storytelling.
Notebooks Found in Estate Sales
Every two weeks, the host reads excerpts from one notebook left behind in an estate sale or thrift store — a 1960s farmwife's recipe book with a complaint about her in-laws in the margin, a Vietnam veteran's draft letters never mailed, an ICU nurse's private notes on patients she couldn't forget.
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