Description
A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident
In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were
discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the
largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator—a
well-respected family man and a former hometown football star—had
managed to conceal the horror for five years.
Among the bodies
found at the Tri-State Crematory was that of Brent Hendricks’s father.
To quell the psychic disturbance surrounding the desecration, Hendricks
embarked on a pilgrimage to the crematory site in Georgia. In A Long Day at the End of the World, he
reveals his very complicated relationship with the South as he tries to
reconcile his love-hate feelings for the culture with his own personal
and familial history there, and his fascination with the disturbed
landscape. In achingly beautiful prose, Hendricks explores his fraught
relationship with his father—not just the grief that surrounded his
death but the uncanniness of his resurrection.
It’s a story
that’s so heart-wrenching, so unbelievable, and so sensational that it
would be easy to tell it without delving deep. But Hendricks’s inquiry
is unrelenting, and he probes the extremely difficult questions about
the love between a parent and a child, about the way human beings treat
each other—in life and in death—and about the sanctity of the body. It’s
the perfect storm for a true Southern Gothic tale.
About the Author
Brent Hendricks is a graduate of the University of
Virginia, Harvard Law School, and the MFA program at the University of
Arizona. He is the author of a book of poems, Thaumatrope, and has been published in such places as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and Bomb magazine. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
(This book cannot be returned.)
A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident
In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator—a well-respected family man and a former hometown football star—had managed to conceal the horror for five years.