Today the SIX FEET OVER IT blog tour is stopping by!
Home is where the bodies are buried.
Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longo’s YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love.
Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers:
Pre-Need: They know what’s up. They bought their graves a long time ago, before they needed them.
At Need: They are in shock, mourning a loved one’s unexpected death. Leigh avoids sponging their agony by focusing on things like guessing the headstone choice (mostly granite).
Sarcastic and smart, Leigh should be able to stand up to her family and quit. But her world’s been turned upside down by the sudden loss of her best friend and the appearance of Dario, the slightly-too-old-for-her grave digger. Surrounded by death, can Leigh move on, if moving on means it’s time to get a life?
JENNIFER LONGO holds an M.F.A. in Writing for Theater from Humboldt State University. She credits her lifelong flair for drama to parents who did things like buy the town graveyard and put their kids to work in it-because how hilarious would that be? Turns out, pretty hilarious. Jennifer lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and daughter and writes about writing at taotejen.com.
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Don't forget to visit the rest of the stops on the tour!
The Hiding Spot
8/29
YA Reads 9/1
Live to Read
9/3
Pandora’s Books 9/8
Winter Haven Books 9/10
Wondrous Reads 9/10
Bundle of Books 9/17
The Children’s Book Review
9/19
Wow...sounds intriguing!! (=
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read this book! The blurb sounds so great and really I already like the main character.
ReplyDeleteI have never read a book with a cemetery setting before, but I have to say, I'm quite intrigued! Thanks, will definitely be keeping an eye out for this book now.
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