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Getting Mother's Body A Novel

Suzan-Lori Parks

Getting Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.

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The book is about moving around a body, and it was described as very funny and an easy read. The narrator describes how she unearthed her dad and moved him to West Virginia so her grandmother could have him next to her when she died, and how the book made her think about what life is about, especially the stops between when we are born and when we die.

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I did a very quick and easy read of your funny novel again, Getting Mother's Body, which is very funny.

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The book is about moving around a body, and it was described as very funny and an easy read. The narrator describes how she unearthed her dad and moved him to West Virginia so her grandmother could have him next to her when she died, and how the book made her think about what life is about, especially the stops between when we are born and when we die.

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I did a very quick and easy read of your funny novel again, Getting Mother's Body, which is very funny.

I'm sorry, it just is.

It's about moving around a body.

Oddly enough, I actually unearthed my dad and moved him to West Virginia so my grandmother could have him next to her when she died.

When I seen Her Bones, I knew what we all knew. We're all going to end up in a grave someday, but there's stops between then and now, which I thought was a perfect way to talk about what life is.

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