Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. 5:30 pm

Alix Strauss is a trend, culture and lifestyle journalist; an award-winning, four-time published author; and speaker.  She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, among other publications.

Joy of Funerals

Hailed as Six Feet Under meets Sex & the City, “The Joy of Funerals is a dark and surprisingly buoyant novel that examines the fascination people have with death as a way to find love and connection,” wrote Glamour in 2003 when award-winning author and New York Times contributor, Alix Strauss’ first novel, published by St. Martin's Press, debuted. 

Twenty years later this still rings true --if not more so today. In celebration of this silver literary anniversary, Alix’s novel is being reissued

The Joy of Funerals is a sneak peek at the inner world of those left behind. From the very first page, readers are drawn into the strange, often humorous world where nine women grapple with sex, power, love, and death. Meet a widow who lusts...a daughter who aches...a lover who obsesses...a shopaholic who hungers... a daredevil who desires...a single woman who longs...an outsider who hopes...an artist who craves...and a funeral-junkie who needs. These are the women who inhabit the eerily honest, often heartbreaking world Alix Strauss has created in The Joy of Funerals.

Throughout this powerful and provocative collection, these characters explore the basic need for human connection while seeking to understand themselves better. It is the 'where do I belong' and the 'how do I fit in' that these sad, bright and amazingly strong women seek to answer.

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