All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work Easter & Lent Vi Liu has never quite

Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town

and she creates a stunning debut novel

--Louise Hay

even a nation

and finds there glittering stones dense with meaning and the power to move forward

All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work Easter & Lent Vi Liu has never quiteA deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by a