Laren's review
Driving with Dead People
by Monica Holloway
Laren's review
Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway
Laren's review
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memoirs
I did not expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. From the title, you might expect this to be the memoir of the daughter of a mortician or something similar. Instead, she uses a recurring theme of death to recount significant events in her life starting at age 8. The use of death is not morbid, but rather, builds to bring the author through a different kind of death altogether. I think that part is meant to be a surprise to the reader, so I won't elaborate. Suffice it to say this book is very well constructed, mostly entertaining, but also horrifying and very sad. Don't read it if you don't like being put through an emotional wringer!
