Grave Talk

By Nick Spalding

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I love books with some quirkiness to them, books that refuse to take themselves one hundred percent seriously. The more over-the-top the better. It takes some real talent to pull this off without it being too much. Nick Spalding is an author who has pulled this off spectacularly. When I read the synopsis about a woman at her husband’s grave running into a giant, talking frog…well, needless to say, I was on board.

Now don’t get me wrong, Grave Talk covers some very serious human emotions. We are talking about death and grieving here, it doesn’t get any more serious than that. You could say as far as human emotions go, death is the end all, be all. It needs to be given the respect and reverence that it deserves. But a doom and gloom, we-are-all-going-to-die-and-it-is-horrible-for-everyone-left-behind is not the kind of book that Nick Spalding writes; and really, who wants to read that book?

Nick Spalding walks that line, making me laugh at the situation, while at the same time connecting me to his two characters that are unable to come to terms with their respective losses. This book is about life and death and how the two intertwine. It is a book about relationships between the dead and those they leave behind; between the survivors and anyone who has ever lost anyone; which is really everyone.

Grave Talk made me laugh, it made me care, and it made me cry. Damn you, Nick Spalding! What more could you ask of a book. This could very well be my best read of the year.

*5 Stars