May 12 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (In Person)

This month’s pick

This Party's Dead
Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals

Tombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery’s book club.

We meet every other month on the second Tuesday in our historic Chapel, and we discuss primarily non-fiction books.

Our book selections have no rhyme and reason; however, our choices tend to stray towards the macabre, as is natural for a cemetery book club. Our very first meeting was in September 2013 and we chose to read Stiff, by Mary Roach.

It’s free to join, and mostly free to attend. For each in-person meeting, we simply ask that you bring either a $5 donation or a bit of food or wine to share with the group. Extra points for brownies!

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What if we responded to death… by throwing a party?

This Party’s Dead is the account of Erica Buist’s journey to seven different countries in order to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all.

From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan, and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Follow Erica as she searches for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety.

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