Rebekkah Barrow returns to her childhood hometown of Claysville for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected and that it was her grandmother's responsibility to make sure the dead were properly cared for in order to prevent them from coming back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living, and now that her grandmother is gone, it is Rebekkah's responsibility to carry on the tradition.
year: 2011, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: dead, fiction, grandmothers, death, granddaughters, homecoming, family secrets, secrecy, supernatural
Editions
Marr, Melissa
William Morrow (2011)
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place(and the man)she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.
Schools: 4
Marr, Melissa
William Morrow (2012)
Rebekkah Barrow returns to her childhood hometown of Claysville for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected and that it was her grandmother's responsibility to make sure the dead were properly cared for in order to prevent them from coming back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living, and now that her grandmother is gone, it is Rebekkah's responsibility to carry on the tradition.
Schools: 3