Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

     


Title: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Author: Cherie Dimaline
Publisher: Tundra Books, April 4, 2023
Pages: 275
Genre: LGBT YA Fiction

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.

This was such a beautiful book. I loved Winifred. She was such a little weirdo. This is kind of the perfect book to read during fall. It's a little bit Wednesday Addams and a little bit Coco. Winifred is a weird kid who feels more comfortable around tombstones than kids her own age. It's also the perfect book for anyone who's ever felt like an outcast.

Ratings
Stars: 5/5

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