Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
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Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.
Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It's welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father's job is being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father's job and the only home she's ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.
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This was… sad. And not in a “crying-over-the-pages-of-my-book“-way but in a way that was both howling with grief but also quiet and smothering, it was somehow raw but also numb. I think it‘s because there are so many “flavors“ of sadness and grief in this book and all of them are different. I did feel like the romantic aspects of this story could‘ve been fleshed out a little better. But I really liked the cast of characters we meet, even though I did not LIKE all of those characters. I will say though, I was hoping for Winifred to get Roberta‘s heirloom back the whole time…
Description
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.
Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It's welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father's job is being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father's job and the only home she's ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.
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This was… sad. And not in a “crying-over-the-pages-of-my-book“-way but in a way that was both howling with grief but also quiet and smothering, it was somehow raw but also numb. I think it‘s because there are so many “flavors“ of sadness and grief in this book and all of them are different. I did feel like the romantic aspects of this story could‘ve been fleshed out a little better. But I really liked the cast of characters we meet, even though I did not LIKE all of those characters. I will say though, I was hoping for Winifred to get Roberta‘s heirloom back the whole time…