Sleepwalking

Granted, I haven't read this book since I bought it as a mass market paperback (my edition was the one with Goth cover at right) some 20 years ago. It was shelved (and possibly marketed?) as a YA book. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. It's about a young woman's obsession with a suicide, a poet whose Long Island family the heroine, Clare, tracks down and lives with for a while. What I remember are some strong descriptive passages and an evocative sense of place (Long Island, eh). I mean, it's not a patch on The Position or The Ten Year Nap, but what the hell. I liked it a lot. And naturally planned to be a death girl as soon as I was allowed.