The "Classic Catherine" Anniversary Edition of FUNERALS FOR HORSES is now

available for sale (with a new Author's Note by Catherine Ryan Hyde)!

"Brutally lyrical." -Publishers Weekly

"A rich blend of metaphors and genuine characters that will touch the

hearts of readers." -Library Journal

Ella Ginsberg's brother Simon seems to have disappeared off the face of the

earth. His clothing, shoes and watch were found abandoned near a freight

line track in Central California. His jockey shorts and wallet were never

found. The police have no clue, and Simon's wife Sarah had no warning that

any trouble was brewing.

Ella, the member of the family with the most severe mental health issues,

takes off on foot across much of California and Arizona, thinking she can

find Simon using nothing but her knowledge of the way he might think. Her

search leads her to the Navajo Nation in Arizona, where she is helped and

befriended by three Native Americans and an aged paint horse named Yozzie.

Chapters of her travels in the present are interspersed with chapters of

her past with Simon, who raised her, and who is still the most important

person in her shaky world. Only maybe it's not as unstable as it looks from

the outside. Maybe inside Ella a core of unexpected strength is emerging.

Maybe Ella is even stronger than the brother who held their lives together

for so long.

"A tale of sibling loyalty, madness, pain and redemption. In this

restrained but compelling narrative, Hyde movingly conveys the toll of

years of emotional damage." -Publishers Weekly