• The Sweet Dead Life

  • A Novel
  • By: Joy Preble
  • Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
  • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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The Sweet Dead Life

By: Joy Preble
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
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Publisher's summary

"I found out two things today: One, I think I’m dying. And two, my brother is a perv."

So begins the diary of 14-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her 16-year-old brother, Casey, tries to hold together what’s left of the family by working two after-school jobs - difficult, as he’s stoned all the time. To make matters worse, Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead.

Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long, Jenna figures out that Casey didn’t survive the accident at all. He’s an "A-word" (she can’t bring herself to utter the truth). Soon they discover that Jenna isn’t just dying; she’s being poisoned. And Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother’s mysterious depression and father’s disappearance.

©2013 Joy Preble (P)2013 AudioGO

Critic reviews

"A smart, sassy, supernatural mystery chock-full of heart, hope and fun." (Cynthia Leitich Smith, New York Times best-selling author)
" The Sweet Dead Life is mischief and mayhem, zippy one-liners, mystery and a tiny bit of tragedy. A-word: Awesome." (E. Lockhart, author of The Boyfriend List)

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