Driving With Dead People (by Monica Holloway )

• First publsihed 2007, 327 Pages
• Published by Pocket Books 
• Soft cover
• Condition, good plus, name on front page, some tanning
• Subtitle: A memoir of a girl whose obession with death gave her a chance at life

At nine years old, Monica Holloway became obsessed with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with an ambulance-chasing father whose home movies featured more footage of disasters than of his children. So she couldn't believe her luck when she made friends with Julie Kilner, daughter of the town mortician. In between her father's bouts of violence and abuse, and her mother's denial, Monica escaped to Kilner & Sons, preferring the casket showroom in the basement mortuary to the grassy backyards of Elk Grove, Ohio. In time, Monica and Julie got a job driving the company hearse to pick up bodies at the airport. Yet even Monica's growing independence couldn't protect her from her parents' irresponsibility. Little did know, as she finally struck out on her own, that their biggest betrayal had yet to be revealed.