Books
Funeral Girl — AVAILABLE NOW!
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run―especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts.
With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the spirit disappear, to a fate that remains mysterious to Georgia. To cope with her deep anxiety about death, she does her best to fulfill the final wishes of the deceased whose ghosts she briefly revives.
Then her classmate Milo's body arrives at Richter―and his spirit wants help with unfinished business, forcing Georgia to reckon with her relationship to grief and mortality.
Coming 09.06.22 from Lerner/Carolrhoda Lab
Advance Praise for Funeral Girl
“The narrative handles the heavy topic of death with honest complexity.” — Kirkus Reviews
"An extraordinary debut; an extraordinary new voice."—Saundra Mitchell, author of All the Things We Do in the Dark
"Funeral Girl is a touching debut about ghosts, grief, and the relationships we have with people both living and dead."—Nita Tyndall, author of Who I Was with Her
“A courageous consideration of death and dying for teen readers, tackling the unanswerable and the unknowable.” —Mindy McGinnis, author of The Initial Insult
Content warnings: depictions of death and corpses in relation to the death industry. Discussion of anxiety, depression, and isolation. All content aims for a hopeful approach to these concepts.
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Short Fiction
Renaissance
A short story about two star-crossed girls watching the stars disappear from their dying planet.
Content warning: discussion of climate crisis