A widow who lusts...a daughter who aches...a lover who obsesses...a shopaholic who hungers...a daredevil who desires...a single woman who longs...an outsider who hopes...an artist who craves...and a funeral-junkie who needs. These are the women who inhabit the eerily honest, often heartbreaking world Alix Strauss has created in The Joy of Funerals. Begun as a "Lives" column in the New York Times Magazine, this riveting collection of interwoven stories...