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From the publisher

"This book is both brief and miraculous, and it will be finished before you're ready to let it go. Like life." --Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth


When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now, a decade later, that beloved book has a moving companion volume. The Baltimore Book of the Dead is a new collection of portraits of the dead, weaving an unusual, richly populated memoir of compressed narratives.


Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story starts in the 1960s in Marion Winik's native New Jersey, winds through Austin, Texas, and rural Pennsylvania, and finally settles in her current home of Baltimore.


Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love; the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia; the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half century of American life.

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  • Title The Baltimore Book of the Dead
  • Author Marion Winik
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781640091214 / 1640091211
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.8 in (18.03 x 11.18 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Geographic Orientation: Maryland
    • Locality: Baltimore, Maryland
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Death, Curiosities and wonders
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018012453
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2018, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2018, Page 66
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/09/2018, Page 0

About the author

Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and many other publications. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at the Baltimore NPR affiliate. She reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Reviews and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a professor in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore.
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