Review: Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Lende, Heather. Find the good: Unexpected life lessons from a small-town obituary writer . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015. A positive, upbeat, delightful read. Heather lives with her family in isolated and remote Haines, Alaska. Haines has a population of two thousand. Heather has for years served as the obituary writer for the local newspaper. In this book we learn of her special way of interacting with the family of the deceased and what she hopes to convey through the written remembrances of community members. In a town of two thousand, she may not know everyone personally, but chances are that she has met them or their family and friends at some point. There are not many degrees of separation in a town of that size. If nothing else, she probably has heard of them. Whether the stories or information she has heard is accurate in entirely different matter altogether, but there is a closeness in a small tow...