Book: The Unclaimed

 Book: The Unclaimed

Author: Pamela Prickett

Pages: 336

This is my 182nd read for the year

Here is what Amazon says:

For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields - a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid.  Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies.  Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year.  The author uncovers a hidden social world.  They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducting us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will. 

This book was fine.  I found it a little dry, but I liked the subject.  I found it interesting to learn more about what happens with bodies who don't get claimed.  And I didn't realize that this was happening more and more.  I wonder if I would have read it instead of listened to it, it would have been a better read.  The narrator was fine, but just a little boring.

Stars: 3