Glamour Magazine
August 2007

"This is a classic …"

“Quirky reads don’t get much more out-there than this. Driving with Dead People plumbs the depths of morbid humor as we meet Monica’s dysfunctional family. With a violent father who has an obsession with photographing car wrecks, Monica was destined to have morbid leanings. Like her father, her obsession is death, beginning at an early age when she bluffs her way into the funeral of a girl whose violent end she’s read about in the paper. She becomes firm friends with Julie Kilner, whose father is the local mortician, and together they explore the casket showroom and lie in the coffins. This is a classic – and the honest, eloquent storytelling is a tribute to Holloway’s resilience.”

Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway (Simon & Schuster)
Review by Shauna Bartlett