Speaker for the Dead

The Speaker for the Dead’s ranking in Best seller Audible weekly is #5.

There are many things that can make listeners interested in Speaker for the Dead, including the book’s complex and sensitive exploration of death, its interesting and well-developed characters, and its thought-provoking ideas about religion, morality, and what it means to be human.

The main story of Speaker for the Dead is about a man who is hired to speak at the funeral of a woman he did not know. He is given a box of her belongings, and in it he finds a journal. The journal tells the story of her life, and how she came to be in the position she was in when she died. The man is moved by her story, and decides to speak at her funeral, in order to give her the dignity she was denied in life.

I think it’s a great book.