by Kevin Toolis

NONFICTION. MEMOIR. CULTURE.

MARCH 28TH BOOK GROUP SELECTION

In My Father's Wake: How The Irish Teach Us To Live, Love, and Die, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality -- by living and loving as the Irish do.

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