num_pages: 288
description: In this funny insightful memoir a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York Citys Upper East Side.Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country where not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving. It's Gossip Girl meets Six Feet Under told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner.Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father's funeral which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music thousands of dollars worth of her mother's favorite flowers and a personalized eulogy. Starting out as a receptionist Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city's most high-powered residents.Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes singular) was living a double life a famous corpse with a missing brain and funerals that cost more than most weddings. By turns illuminating emotional and darkly humorous Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows whether you're wearing this season's couture or drug-store flip-flops.
language: English
title: Good Mourning
publisher: Gallery Books