Meanwhile, he must care for his grandmother, Mam who suffers from ever-worsening dementia. Almost every night, he suffers bizarre and fearsome nightmares about death, in between severe bouts of sleepwalking after which he wakes up in unfamiliar places far from home. Thus, he is "always dark" on the outside but "happy underneath." For Aaron, work at the funeral home largely serves as a distraction from his terrifying and traumatizing home life. His somewhat surprising way of coping with death is to surround himself with it constantly through his work as a funeral director. A kindly father figure to Aaron, throughout the novel, Barton is coping with the untimely death of his son. According to Kirkus Reviews, The Dead I Know is "simply told and powerfully moving." Aaron Rowe is a young man described as "tall, dark, and handsome.with an emphasis on dark." At the beginning of the novel, he gets a job at a funeral parlor working for John Barton. The Dead I Know (2011), a young adult novel by Australian author Scot Gardner, tells the story of a young man who confronts the grief from his past after getting a job at a funeral parlor.
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