Sheila Martin

The Coney Island Book of the Dead, An Illustrated Novel Sheila Martin

The Coney Island Book of the Dead throbs with the kinetic energy and

dark undercurrents of the Coney Island of 1957. It's imbued with

mythical stories from Yiddish and Delta folklore and narrated by a

spunky, talented eleven-year-old girl named Brooklyn. In the midst of

dysfunctional family crises and supernatural death threats from a

rat-pack singer, who may be the Angel of Death, she tries to heal her

grief over the death of her grandmother by singing the blues.



Each chapter is illustrated with a visionary painting by the author.