This Is How We Celebrate Our Dead

Altar decorated for Día de los Muertos celebrations in Mexico. Ute, via Flickr Last week when my two young nieces were in town, we went to a local theater to watch Jorge R. Gutierrez’s The Book of Life, an animated children’s film that is part heavy-handed love story, part love letter to Día de de los Muertos, the holiday on which those who have died are celebrated, a ritual that goes back 3,000 years.