Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral: A Novel

by Kris Radish

Book Overview

For Katherine Givens and the four women about to become her best friends, the adventure begins with a UPS package. Inside is a pair of red sneakers filled with ashes and a note that will forever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553382640
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 0.8" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Still laughing

Once you read this you have to share it with friends...those great girlfriends you've had for life. What a way to go. Get those red shoes, you never know whose life you will be celebrating next. LOL

Fabulous Female Friendships

My two closest women friends and I have all read this book and agree that it accurately reflect our own experiences and feelings for one another. I read it straight through in one sitting and was sorry to have it end. I would highly recommend it to any one, especially to men who are wondering what in the world women want. Freud should have read it!

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

I received this book from a sorority sister who's husband had recently died. The book has been read, commented on, and passed around a group of us who have been friends since college. I did not read it from any "literary critic's standards" point of view. I simply enjoyed the story, with both laughter and tears, and vowed to work harder to keep those college friendships important in my life. There is no doubt that my funeral will be very different from Annie's, but I hope my friends and family who are still alive when I'm gone will remember me with the love and fondness that Annie's friends had for her. I also read two other books by K.Radish, and while I did enjoy the reading, I did not like them nearly as much as "Annie..." I'm glad I read it before the others, as I might not have been willing to put in the time reading it had I read her other books first. Every reader brings her (or his) own set of standards and interests to the task of reading a book that has been recommended by others. If you did not like this book, oh well. But each person who starts it will have to decide for herself whether or not to complete the reading. I have often found that my opinions differed from "critics," but if a good friend recommends a book, I'm much more likely to enjoy it also. Give it a try; make your own judgment.

A lot of heart . . .

A friend dead all-too-soon, her friends come together to fulfill her final wishes of spreading her ashes among four locations that meant something to her in life. Through this "traveling funeral," those who never before met come together and establish all new friendships with each other, laughing and crying along the way, but forever changed with the conviction to live life to its fullest. Extremely well-written, the characters jump off the page and one is left wanting to grab one's friends and make some serious memories.

Simply wonderful book

This is the best book I've read in a long while. I thought it would be a funny book, and it was but also was so much more. Every chapter had a 'oh yes, I've been there' moment. It made me tear up frequently though it wasn't a sad book. I think reading this book will profoundly change the way I look at things in my life. I do believe that older women (over 40) will understand it more fully than younger women. I plan to give it to all my best girlfriends this year for Christmas. One of those books that you don't lend - a keeper!