Two Floors Above Grief: A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We Called Home

As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O'Connor knew his house was different than his friends.

A stately, three-story, nineteenth century Victorian. His bed tucked next to a stage in a former ballroom. His uncle and aunt lived with their three daughters on the floor below. A large electric organ in a bay window of the first-floor mortuary business. Stacked caskets and an embalming room in the basement.

Nobody had a house like his.

Set from the 1920s to '80s, Two Floors Above Grief is full of fascinating details and anecdotes about life as a funeral home child, brought to vivid life through a compelling collection of letters written by O'Connor and various family members who lived and worked together at the O'Connor Funeral Home in Elgin, Illinois. Blending the twenty-four-hour business of death and its constantly ringing phone with the joy experienced by his families through music, pets, backyard basketball games, co-parenting, faith, and celebrations, O'Connor offers a reflective love letter to the affirmation of family love and embracing life.

Author: Kevin M. O'Connor
Publisher: 18th Floor Publishing
Published: 11/19/2022
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9798987021309
ISBN10: 8987021300
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

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