Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
$59.47
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2019
Summary
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it was pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?
In the tradition of Randall Munroe’s What If?, Doughty’s new book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, blends her scientific understanding of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393652703 |
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| ISBN-10: | 039365270X |
| Author: | Caitlin Doughty, Dianné Ruz |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 150mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“With every ounce of straight-talking spunk one could muster for this topic, Doughty delivers a surprisingly heart-warming read.”
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential, revealing not only how little we understand about death, but also how much kids can handle.–Marianne Eloise “Guardian”
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is morbidly funny and frank, lighthearted and informative…[A] delight for all and a must for adults who might fall victim to a barrage of childhood questions.–Jennifer Johnson “emissourian.com”
Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty is a writer, documentarian, and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? and created the “Ask a Mortician” series. She lives in upstate New York.
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