326 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Hyperion.
Putting makeup on dead people
by Jen Violi
5 stars
(1 review)
Donna's discovery, that she wants to be a mortician, helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.
Donna Parisi, still grieving over her father's death, comes to the realization while standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at a funeral home that she could find purpose in a career in the funeral industry. The plot contains sexual situations.
Subjects
- Grief
- Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence
- High schools
- Schools
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction