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There, he meets his boss John, who plays an important emotional support in Aaron’s life. The story starts with Aaron applying for a job as a funeral director. The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner is definitely a poignant story that delivers a heartbreaking amount of sadness as well as a touching amount of hope and goodness. Death doesn’t scare Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep and haunted by dreams he can’t explain and memories he can’t recover. Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep and haunted by dreams he can’t explain and memories he can’t recover. Read “The Dead I Know” by Scot Gardner with Rakuten Kobo.Readers looking for a tightly crafted character-driven story will happily find themselves making friends with the darkly strange Aaron, and they may want to move on to adult books on the topic such as Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Funeral home scenes are equal parts humane, grotesque, and funny. Aaron’s narrative voice shifts and grows with the character: stark and remote in his isolation, gradually revealing emotional depth as his connections to others grow stronger. Despite hints of the past and hope for the future, the story remains firmly grounded in the present, with a sense of immediacy that draws the reader in. Powerful storytelling, perfectly toned writing, and memorable characters turn this brief Australian import into a compelling read. Though consoling the bereaved raises the specter of his own tragic past, Aaron finds solace in his work and learns that his connection to the dead might give him a path to new relationships with the living. The past won’t let Aaron go so easily, though, and nighttime finds him plagued by long-suppressed memories turned violent dreams and increasingly dangerous bouts of sleepwalking. But Aaron’s natural inclination toward silence and his willingness to take on even the strangest and grossest of tasks make him an instant success, and under the tutelage of the caring John Barton, he soon finds himself happily considering his future in the industry. When Aaron Rowe takes a job with a local funeral director, he never expects to find his calling.

The dead i know by scot gardner