Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

Lende hones the skills she learned as an obituary writer for the town of Haines, Alaska, in her memoir, capturing big and small moments to tell her life’s story. She teases out great moments within her life and the people she encounters through her work, reinforcing the book’s message, which is reflected in the title. Her skills as a writer are not as useful, however, when it comes to narrating the audio version of her memoir. Though she reads with passion in some passages, at other times her voice is flat, and she seems uninterested in what she is reading. The narration would be more powerful in a professional narrator’s voice. Despite this, listeners can still take much from the message and the compassion in the writing. An Algonquin hardcover. (Apr.)