title: Funeral Hopper
author: Shriver, Beth
description: Kate Malcum is a third-generation funeral director who lives in a speck of a town called Poppy Lake. The population is made up of senior citizens where only a few of the next generation have decided to stay among the elderly.
  Kate receives a visit from Mr. Shomer when she attends the wrong service. He guides her to the right one, and from there on, he keeps her hoppin’ by showing up at the memorials where he sends her. Some are for people she doesn’t even know but have done something in their life from which Shomer wants Kate to learn, but what he’s really teaching her is that she’s not living her own life.