Leanne Olson

by Cherie Dimaline

published April 4, 2023 from Tundra Books

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls is a beautiful, funny, sad and spooky coming-of-age story.  

Winnifred lives with her dad in an apartment above a cemetery.  She’s a lonely teen about to turn 16 when she befriends the ghost of a murdered Indigenous girl, Phil.

Winnie and Phil are wonderful characters, and I loved the way Dimaline wrote them as complex people who are able to hope, and not girls defined by their heartbreaking pasts.   

“People acted like it was inevitable—that my destiny was a ditch outside a cemetery from day one. But that’s not how I was born. That’s not how I lived.”

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Thank you to Netgalley and Tundra Books for my review copy of this book.