Driving With Dead People: A Memoir, by Monica Holloway (TPB, 2007, $2.50)
Doesn't that title just reach out and grab you! I figured this would be a fun book to read, heavy on the parts where the girl hangs out at an undertakers, and light on the descriptions of her dysfunctional family. Wrong! This is a wonderfully written book, and well worth reading, but it is not a light read. It starts out dark and gets darker.
Sometimes we need a reality check. The world is not always a place of kindness. The more we know about the world, the more we can understand it, others, and ourselves. There may be a lot of denial going on by in this family, but that doesn't mean that WE have to live in denial of ugliness or evil. Without the awareness of ugliness, we can't help others, or even ourselves, deal with the pain and heal. And, oh, does this world need help healing!
Look for this book on the new non-fiction table, avail. 1/7. (Later: the biog. section.)
