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Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

Sun-drenched summer days in a small town collide with the heavy, morbid preoccupations of a young girl raised in a funeral parlor. This bittersweet coming-of-age tale finds magic in the awkward, painful transitions between childhood innocence and the sudden weight of reality.

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