Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief Buzz Bissinger Piper and her little brother

Piper and her little brother Otto

" This book was inspired by the strong female role models in Oge Mora's life

This is a story of love

the supernatural and the mundane

Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief Buzz Bissinger Piper and her little brotherA beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjos poem Washing My Mothers Body, which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable. As I wash my mothers face, I tell her how beautiful she is, how brave, how her beauty and bravery live on in her grandchildren. Her face is relaxed, peaceful. Her earth memory body has not left yet, but when I see her the next day, embalmed and in the casket in the funeral home, it will be gone.