Funeral Nights Julia Hotz By: Edward J Brennan

By: Edward J Brennan

mass incarceration

First published more than thirty years ago and translated into twenty different languages

clashes of custom and style all weave together on the pitch

Joanna Faber

Funeral Nights Julia Hotz By: Edward J BrennanBy: Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Published by And Other Stories, 2024 07 02 A group of friends journey to a remote part of West Khasi Hills, in northeast India, to witness the performance of an ancient Lyngngam funeral ceremony that lasts six days. Concluding with the cremation of a beloved elder, a woman whose body has been preserved in a tree house for nine whole months, this may well be the last time Ka Phor Sorat, the feast of the dead, is performed.