Funeral Girl

(Hardback)

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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.

Reviews

"[G]ive Ohland's first novel high marks for its unusual premise and vivid characterization of its imperfect protagonist." -- Booklist

"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

Author Bio

Emma K. Ohland (she/they) is an author who has been telling stories since before she knew how to write them down. She grew up in the middle of a cornfield in Indiana, but her imagination often carried her away to other worlds. She graduated from Purdue University with a B.A. in English literature. She currently lives in Indiana with her partner, their cat, and their dog. Funeral Girl is her debut YA novel.