“Selma Koch, a Manhattan store owner who earned a national reputation by helping women find the right bra size, mostly through a discerning glance and never with a tape measure, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was 95 and a 34B.”

The Dead Beat tells the story behind the obituary page – the people who spend their lives writing about the dead, and the thoughtful and quirky life stories they tell. You will be humbled, edified, and warmed by Johnson’s account of the craft of obituary writing and how it preserves and shares with us lives well lived.

Mary Ellen