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In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own fatality. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to assure to bury her after she'd died. This is in Xi'an, a city in central China, at the same time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese language methods, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his grandmother was continual, and two years later, Huang's dad built her a coffin. Over another 15 years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma's burial, a normal source of friction and contention, with the continuous risk of being caught by the authorities. Years later, Huang came up to comprehend how much the coffin experienced influenced his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family.
