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“For top-notch drama, this year’s medal goes to Rules for Ghosting. . . . Here, actual ghosts haunt the quiet and tender moments, and it’s the scenes at family holidays that leave you rattled and gasping.”—The New York Times Book Review (“One of the Best Romance Novels of 2024”)
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather’s ghost didn’t give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn’t have the pressure of all those relatives—living and dead—judging every choice he makes. It’s no wonder that Ezra runs as far away from the family business as humanly possible.
But when the floor of his dream job drops out from under him and his mother uses the family Passover seder to tell everyone she’s running off with the rabbi’s wife, Ezra finds himself back in the thick of it. With his parents’ marriage imploding and the Friedman Family Memorial Chapel on the brink of financial ruin, Ezra agrees to step into his mother’s shoes and help out . . . which means long days surrounded by ghosts that no one else can see.
And then there’s his unfortunate crush on Jonathan, the handsome funeral home volunteer . . . who just happens to live downstairs from Ezra’s new apartment . . . and the appearance of the ghost of Jonathan’s gone-too-soon husband, Ben, who is breaking every spectral rule that Ezra knows.
Because Ben can speak. He can move. And as Ezra tries to keep his family together and his heart from getting broken, he realizes that there’s more than one way to be haunted—and more than one way to become a ghost.
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Release date
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593723951
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780593723951
- File size: 3230 KB
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Languages
- English
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August 1, 2024
A reluctant clairvoyant is confronted with family secrets and the ghost of his love interest's deceased husband in this heartwarming debut. Ezra Friedman has avoided his family's Jewish funeral home since he saw his first ghost at age seven--his zayde, who continues to silently haunt the chapel. After his mother drops a bombshell--a secret lesbian affair--and moves out, Ezra begrudgingly takes over her role in the office, putting up with the many ghosts who come and go from the funeral home and the sad looks from his zayde that he interprets as disappointment with his trans identity. Things get even more complicated when Ezra's handsome neighbor and chapel volunteer, Jonathan, starts flirting with him . . . while the ghost of Jonathan's husband provides commentary. While many ghost stories are about helping the dearly departed tie up loose ends so they can move on, here it's the living who must learn when to let go--of secrets, of guilt, and of their ideas of who they are and who they should be. Jewish family drama and a tender romance combine to tug at the heartstrings and leave readers sighing happily.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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