SPOOKY LITTLE GIRL by Laurie Notaro

All I can say about this book is that it made me laugh so hard and think at the same time.  Notaro has 9 books (2 are fiction and the others are short story), many of which I have read and loved.  Spooky Little Girl is by far my favorite of her work.  She is an author that makes you feel like you are spending time with a girlfriend.  It is funny and original stuff.  Her newest book:  It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy is due out July 26, 2011.

*this is a great book club pick

Here is the description of the book...

Death is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.

Coming home from a Hawaiian vacation with her best girlfriends, Lucy Fisher is stunned to find everything she owns tossed out on her front lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancé’s phone disconnected—plus she’s just lost her job. With her world spinning wildly out of her control, Lucy decides to make a new start and moves upstate to live with her sister and nephew.

But then things take an even more dramatic turn: A fatal encounter with public transportation lands Lucy not in the hereafter but in the nearly hereafter. She’s back in school, learning the parameters of spooking and how to become a successful spirit in order to complete a ghostly assignment. If Lucy succeeds, she’s guaranteed a spot in the next level of the afterlife—but until then, she’s stuck as a ghost in the last place she would ever want to be.

Trying to avoid being trapped on earth for all eternity, Lucy crosses the line between life and death and back again when she returns home. Navigating the perilous channels of the paranormal, she’s determined to find out why her life crumbled and why, despite her ghastly death, no one seems to have noticed she’s gone. But urgency on the spectral plane—in the departed person of her feisty grandmother, who is risking both their eternal lives—requires attention, and Lucy realizes that you get only one chance to be spectacular in death.