Title: The boy in the black suit
Description: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Subjects: Funeral homes, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Bereavement, Family life, African Americans, Fiction, African American teenagers, Emotions & Feelings, Friendship, Grief in adolescence, Grief, Families, Family, Juvenile fiction, Social Themes, Death & Dying, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Grief, fiction, African americans, fiction, Family life, fiction, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, JUVENILE FICTION
Places: Brooklyn, NY