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Susan Carpenter of the LA Times has compared Winik’s latest release to Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a classic that told the story- of a town in the voices of the deceased, though the characters in Winik’s book aren’t bound by geography but by their happenstance connections to the writer.

“Few of us, when we die, wall be lucky enough to be eulogized as intriguingly as the individuals in Marion Winik's The Glen Rock Book of the Dead.’”

Jesse Kombluth, writing for HeadButler.com, describes the book as “equal parts laceration and exhilaration. 100 percent brilliance....Fiji dazzled by the highwire act of her writing, her willingness to go deep and then go deeper, and her immense wisdom about life... Ifyou have the guts to read this book -

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