November 21, 2011
“A young adult novel for any bookshelf. The prose is crisp, refreshing and effortless, the characters fully realized and vivid, the dialogue believable and well chosen. Th
ere is a clean loveliness to this book, a light in it, despite its dark topic.”—PNBA Awards Committee. Putting Makeup on Dead People is on the shortlist for the 2012 PNBA Book Awards.