A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents

Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit--her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a result.

She's been doing her best to live her new life apart from them, but when their estranged father has a stroke and summons them, Grace suddenly realizes she's done the same thing he had done...abandoned those who need her most.

And need her they do, for inside the hospital walls, a strange war is unfolding between the pseudo-kindly woman who is their father's second wife and the rest of the original Hawkes clan. Upon reconnecting with her brother and sisters, Grace will find a part of herself she thought was lost forever. As they unravel the manipulative deception of the second Mrs. Hawkes, Grace will finally be able to stand up for her family--and to remember what a family is, even after all these years.

Author: Liza Palmer
Publisher: 5 Spot
Published: 12/23/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780446698382

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2009 pg. 32
Romantic Times 01/01/2010 pg. 57 - Good
Booklist 12/15/2009 pg. 18
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2010 pg. 72

About the Author
Liza Palmer is the internationally bestselling author of Conversations with the Fat Girl and six other novels. An Emmy-nominated writer, she lives in Los Angeles and works for BuzzFeed.