Reynolds, Jason, author.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015]
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Notes:

• Soon after his mother’s death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man — Provided by publisher.
• Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2016

Subjects:

• Funeral homes — Fiction.
• Funeral rites and ceremonies — Fiction.
• Grief in adolescence — Fiction.
• African American teenagers — Fiction.
• Families — New York (State) — Fiction.
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Fiction.
• Funeral homes — Fiction.
• Funeral rites and ceremonies — Fiction.
• Grief — Fiction.
• African Americans — Fiction.
• Family life — New York (State) — Brooklyn — Fiction.

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