You're listening to All the Backlist. a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host for the week, Trisha Brown, and this is episode number 437.5.

I'm actually recording this on October 31st, which is Halloween.

Although when you were listening to it, Halloween will be multiple days past, so you probably don't care.

But regardless of that, I hope you have enough leftover candy to get you through

at least the weekend and ideally till the end of the month. All right, let's talk about

some books. The books that we were going let's talk about some books.

The books that we are going to talk about today are pretty different from each other in

a lot of ways, but they both send her on a topic that I personally think we don't talk enough about, which is grief.

I know that probably sounds like a downer, but stick with me. One of these books is even

actually by a comedian. So like I said, stick with me. And I think that if you are willing to give

one or both of these books a try, you will find that one of the great things about each of them

is that they highlight the complexities of grief, which is more than about just being sad,

and help to recognize grief's role as one of the most precious parts of the human experience.

And I am going to tell you more about how they do that in just a minute.

Today's episode is brought to you by Ashwood Press.

Not quite 13 years have passed since Jack the Ripper terrorized White Chapel London,

and now in the very shadow of the Great Pan American Exposition, someone has started murdering

the sex workers of Buffalo's tenderloin district

and carving strange symbols into their bodies. Neither police vigilantes nor

the working girls themselves have any clue to the identity or the motive of

the buffalo butcher and no one seems to care.

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