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It's been four years since Donna Parisi's father passed away, but it might as well have been four days. Donna makes conversation and goes through the motion, but she hasn't really gotten on with life. She's not close with anyone, she doesn't have a boyfriend and she's going to college at the local university with a major that her mother picked. But one day Donna has an epiphany. She wants to work with dead people. She wants to help people say goodbye and she wants to learn to love a whole person--body and soul. She wants to live her life and be exceptional...at loving, at grieving and at embalming and cremating,too. Even as she makes the decision, things start to change. Donna makes friends with the charismatic new student, Liz. She notices the boy, Charlie, at her table and realizes that maybe he's been noticing her, too. And she begins to forgive the rest of her family for living their lives while she's been busy moping.
Jennifer Violi's gentle, moving story of a girl who finds a life in the midst of death will appeal to any reader who's felt stuck and found inspiration in an unexpected place.
What drew me in?
I know, I know but just go with it. So I went through a phase where I considered being a Corner, I thought it would be a fun job and you can't really mess up on dead people can you? The other thing that got me was it sounds like she finds a passion with in her grief, I love those kind of stories. Light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel junk always gets me. Then there is the cover... pretty but slightly creepy at the same time.
According to Goodreads Putting Makeup on Dead people is to be published on July 26th, 2011 by Hyperion.
just sayin,
-Kare
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