As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O\'Connor knew his house was different than his friends.
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..
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.
Nobody had a house like his.
Stacked caskets and an embalming room in the basement.
A large electric organ in a bay window of the first-floor mortuary business.
His uncle and aunt lived with their three daughters on the floor below.
His bed tucked next to a stage in a former ballroom.
A stately, three-story, nineteenth century Victorian.
As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O\'Connor knew his house was different than his friends
