GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS: MORTICIAN BY DAY, MODEL BY NIGHT By Alexandra Kathryn Mosca

GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS: MORTICIAN BY DAY, MODEL BY NIGHT By Alexandra Kathryn Mosca

These days, with enrollment in mortuary schools equally divided between men and women,. most forget that female funeral directors were once a rarity. While the public face of funeral service was slow to change, when it did there was nobody more public than Alexandra Kathryn Mosca. Detouring from her chosen path to become a writer, Mosca found funeral service. Or, more accurately, funeral service found her.

Grave Undertakings is a memoir of Mosca's singularly unique career. As a beautiful young woman immersed in a male dominated, mostly family-owned industry, she also kept a foot in the glamorous worlds of acting and modeling. Her ultimate experience as a model --a pictorial in Playboy--set the industry abuzz and seemed to spell doom for her career. Instead, her career continued to flourish, and her writing career was born.