Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

Cherie Dimaline

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After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring Indigenous identity from the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series. 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 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 ruse 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.


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     It was okay, the actual plot was good, the message behind the book is great however this book felt unnecessarily hard to read in some parts. It seems like the desire for it to be shocking was taken a little too seriously in some elements. The characters were fine, it was a bit hard to feel a connection with them.

    after reading the marrow thieves I was so excited to pick this one up. I think my expectations were too high for this one so it fell a little flat for me.

    while I may be a little disappointed, It was still a good read! 

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