• Two Floors Above Grief

  • A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We Called Home
  • By: Kevin O'Connor
  • Narrated by: Frank B. Iwan Jr.
  • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Two Floors Above Grief

By: Kevin O'Connor
Narrated by: Frank B. Iwan Jr.
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As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O’Connor knew his house was different than his friends.

A stately, three-story 19th-century Victorian. His bed tucked next to a stage in a former ballroom. His uncle and aunt lived with their three daughters on the floor below. A large electric organ in a bay window of the first-floor mortuary business. Stacked caskets and an embalming room in the basement.

Nobody had a house like his.

Set from the 1920s to ‘80s, Two Floors Above Grief is full of fascinating details and anecdotes about life as a funeral home child, brought to vivid life through a compelling collection of letters written by O’Connor and various family members, who lived and worked together at the O’Connor Funeral Home in Elgin, Illinois. Blending the 24-hour business of death and its constantly ringing phone with the joy experienced by his families through music, pets, backyard basketball games, co-parenting, faith, and celebrations, O’Connor offers a reflective love letter to the affirmation of family love and embracing life.

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©2022 Kevin O'Connor (P)2023 Kevin O'Connor

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I can’t wait to watch the movie 🎥

This was one of the most interesting books I have listened to. I could not stop listening to this. The characters were described with so much detail and the stories are so touching. Letter writing is a forgotten art and this will help bring it back. This has inspired me to start writing more. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story.

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The reader was horrible- it sounded like a never ending news cast with a story that would put the biggest insomniac to sleep.

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