The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade » (Reprint)

Thomas Lynch's stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, the Times (of London, New York, Ireland, and Los Angeles), and elsewhere. The Undertaking was a finalist for the National Book Award; he is also the author of Still Life in Milford, Booking Passage, Apparition & Late Fictions and Walking Papers. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, and West Clare, Ireland.

“[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” —Time Out New York

USA Today

Lynch's vivid prose has the electricity of writing that tells us what is going on in the secret places of the community — and the secret places of the heart.