Review: Putting Makeup on Dead People

Title: Putting Makeup on Dead PeopleSeries: No Genre: Young Adult- ContemporaryAuthor: Jen VioliPublisher: Hyperion BooksRelease Date: May 24, 2011Book: Netgalley “In the spring of her senior year, Donna Parisi finds new life in an unexpected place: a coffin. Since her father’s death four years ago, Donna has gone through the motions of living: her friendships are empty, she’s clueless about what to do after high school graduation, and her grief keeps her isolated, cut off even from the one parent she has left. That is until she’s standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at Brighton Brothers’ Funeral Home. At that moment, Donna realizes what might just give her life purpose is comforting others in death. That maybe who she really wants to be is a...

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