{"product_id":"9781552453780","title":"The Embalmer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eImagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career - from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of colour into a corpse's skin for that blushing look - the narrator must look her parents' deaths, and her relationship with them, straight in the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eQuietly poetic, \u003ci\u003eThe Embalmer\u003c\/i\u003e glimpses at something most would rather look away from.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne-Renee Caille (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43053879492675,"sku":"9781552453780","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8b9ee984-c599-423e-ac3a-9665cd964759.jpg?v=1774035051","url":"https:\/\/thebookshop613.ca\/products\/9781552453780","provider":"The Bookshop 613","version":"1.0","type":"link"}