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The Removers: A Memoir (2014)

by Andrew Meredith(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1476761213 (ISBN13: 9781476761213)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribner

review 1: I haven't read many books in which the characters live in blue collar neighborhoods in the northeast. I found the book interesting from the world of dead bodies but also the descriptions of a dying and changing town were poignant. I loved this insight: "The thing I discovered in my late approach to growing up is the peace in realizing that is nothing special in the traumas that form us..... We cherish the particulars of our past, these events that cause our pain, but the liberation comes when we start to see how every living person has gone through something that has changed him or her, and that becoming an adult is based on response."
review 2: This book wasn't what I thought it would be. I was expecting more stories about removing dead bodies from homes and h... moreow gruesome or sad or maybe even lovely that could be. There was a bit about that, but this memoir was much more about a young man learning how to forgive his father. The story wasn't in any kind of chronological order, which I know would drive some people mad, but it didn't seem to bother me too much. It felt a bit like stream of consciousness writing, or many blog posts. Made me think that maybe I *can* write a book. ;) less

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