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Bezig met laden... What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator (2022)door Barbara Butcher
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) brianinbuffalo | Dec 4, 2023 |  Riveting insight into what some have to deal with every day. This kind of work is done in every big city worldwide and those who must deal with it are never given the honor due them. It is often grisly sad work that struggles against many people's view of humanity. Extremely poignant and well written. I think that you can almost never go wrong with a book read by the author because who knows better how to present the good/bad/ugly? (  ) jetangen4571 | Oct 15, 2023 |  Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) Kozo89 | Jul 15, 2023 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) Jjean7 | Jul 6, 2023 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) GermaineShames | Jun 26, 2023 |
The author is a witty, gifted observer who approaches her own struggles with mental health with the same keenness and curiosity as she approaches the bodies she encounters on the job. However, while she never shies away from the gruesome details of corpses and crime scenes, she is less than forthcoming about her personal life, providing only brief glimpses into a history of “depression and suicidal tendencies” that began in her teens. This gap is noteworthy mostly because Butcher’s forays into memoir are heartbreakingly beautiful; their brevity leaves readers wanting more. A gritty, humorous portrait of a strong woman who found sobriety while working with the dead.
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HTML:"Butcher chronicles her career path and her journey to sobriety in unflinching detail, while her voice remains deliberate and measured, occasionally slipping into what sounds like a half-smirk when cracking a joke....She has a way with words, telling stories that are at turns hilarious, thought-provoking and, as might be expected, disturbing....This is a story of trauma, yes, but it's also a glimpse into the dark side of a city that most never see up close." â??The New York Times Book Review A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerousâ??she loved it. Butcher (yes, that is her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide. Later in her career, she describes working the nation's largest mass murder, the attack on 9/11, where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members' descriptions to help distinguish among the 21,900 body parts of the victims. This is the fascinating and stunning real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about lifeâ??and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and true crime won't be able to put Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenBarbara Butcher's boek What the Dead Know: Learning about Life As a New York City Death Investigator was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
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