Over My Dead Body, Greg Melville

[walkitout]

Our book club will be discussing this in a few hours, and I just finished reading it. It’s great! I really and truly enjoyed it. The author is a goof, but a dad-joke kind of goof. He’s never disrespectful in a way that gives me pause. His attention to land use, economics, what he calls the Death Industrial Context, racial segregation, and Julia Morgan is absolutely fantastic in every way. I had understood The Lawn to be a response to golf courses, but this book sold me on an alternative interpretation. I’d known a lot about Olmstead, but I learned more here.

I have no idea if he’s got any other books out there, but if he does, I’ll at least consider reading them, because this was unexpectedly wonderful.

I’m looking forward to our conversation this evening.