The Mourner's Dance: What we do when people die

Flat-signed by the author on the title page. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. 1st Edition

When her daughter's fiance died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg experienced the varieties of modern mourning, the expected ceremonies and intuitive rituals that gave solace to her family. Their power to comfort or not led her to explore the choreography of mourning across centuries and cultures, the rich and endlessly inventive ways we have devised to mark a universal and deeply felt plight.