Description He tells her about cases he remembers.
This is her first novel..
About the Author Anne-Reneé Caillé lives in Montreal.
Quietly poetic, The Embalmer glimpses at something most would rather look away from.
These are the notes of a life spent facing death, of a daughter trying to make sense of her father.
The powder that comes in a ketchup-sized packet and is injected into the cheeks for that blushing look, the candle wax used to reconstruct parts of the skull, the perfectly weighted stones in a repatriated soldier\'s casket.
He reveals the secrets of his profession.
The two young women found in the forest, the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels, the casket that caught on fire at the funeral.
Description He tells her about cases he remembers
