Rules for Being Dead Divination Jean Chen Ho's debut collection

Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship--the intensity

The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark

But for David Gerrold it was love at first sight

their statues hacked to pieces

interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition--from "astrophe

Rules for Being Dead Divination Jean Chen Ho's debut collection"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive in, movies James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten year old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy