Funeral Girl

Name: Funeral Girl
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Emma K. Ohland
ISBN: 9781666616934

Author: Emma K. Ohland

Narrator: Jess Nahikian

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/06/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural

Synopsis

"With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, Georgia Richter can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the spirit disappear to a fate that remains mysterious to her. 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 her to reckon with her relationship to grief and mortality."

About Emma K. Ohland

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 BA in English literature and currently lives with her partner, their cat, and their dog in Indiana.

About Jess Nahikian

Jess Nahikian is a Midwest-born, British-trained actor and voiceover artist who has worked on sets, on stages, and in sound booths in Scotland, St. Petersburg, the United Kingdom, the United States, and everywhere else in between. She currently resides in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra

Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter lives with her family over their funeral home. Enter Six Feet Under vibes! She has the ability to summon the dead, wake them up so to speak, to talk to them and release them to what comes next. She has tremendous anxiety about death, and it doesn't help that her scho......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews

I am going against the ratings tide on this one. At first I suspected that Georgia was deeply depressed, but the ending of this story - no spoilers here - deconstructed that theory for me and just made me believe that non-binary, asexual Georgia was just a melodramatic, self-absorbed teen-aged person......more

Goodreads review by Heather Adores Books

4.25⭐ for the audiobook. Featuring ~ single 1st person POV, debut, death, ghosts I really hope I get to be a ghost so my nosiness doesn't end with my death. There's definitely some people I wouldn't mind haunting. Georgia's family owns the town funeral home and has a gift, or maybe not, of being able t......more

Goodreads review by Emma

It’s got ghosts and funerals and coffins and inner turmoil and existential dread and ace and nonbinary rep and complicated family dynamics and powerful friendships at the heart of it all. Can’t wait for you all to be able to read it <3......more

Quotes

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