from erikschreppel

Nine Years Under is a fantastic debut. Sherri Booker has written an engaging, thoughtful, humorous and original book. This real life chronicle of growing up working in a inner city Baltimore funeral home really strips down our inhibitions regarding death. We see how death and dying comes to us al...

from lpmejia

Nine Years Under by Sheri Booker gives an account of the author's years working in an inner city funeral home in Baltimore. Its initial appeal is based on the same morbid curiosity which made HBO's Six Feet Under a hit, but the book holds its own and its reader's attention by rising above (no pun...

from bonnieclyde

This book was WAY better than I expected. It is never dry or boring, and that phrase "coming of age" that so often turns me off can just be ignored. Ms. Booker shares stories from her life experiences that are entertaining and thought provoking. The look behind the scenes of a mortuary is fascina...

from mjspear

An intriguing if not gripping look at the funeral home business in a large inner city in the 1970s (I think). Casual descriptions of the bodies: transsexuals, dwarfs, amputees, babies along with graphic descriptions of embalming are leavened by the warmth and sympathy that the Home provides. Most...

from MaggieFlo

This is a first person account told by the author of her nine years working in a funeral home in Baltimore. She starts working for the Wylie funeral home as a fifteen year old because she knows the family from her church. The story could be more interesting if it was better written, if the people...