 Here
are a few of the places and items mentioned in the novel, A Field Guide
to Burying Your Parents. Choose a title to see an enlarged version with an
excerpt from the book. 
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| | ORGANIC
MARKET
"Did you want the coffee with soy?” the woman behind the counter
of the organic market asks John. | | B&B
"You from around here?” a soft, gooey lady asks me as we stand in line
at the B&B’s breakfast buffet the next morning. |
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| NANA'S
HOUSE
"Blue! There's a big, blue one!" Emilygrae screams, pointing
at a big, beautiful prairie style house that sits right up against the mountains
themselves. | | DALY
RD.
"Why didn't Tio Huston just do it?" Evie asks as we turn up a
more residential street of Ojai... |
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| OJAI
"Tucked away in the rolling countryside northeast of Los Angeles, dotted with
oak trees and babbling brooks, Ojai is down-right idyllic... |
| ROSE
PARADE
"I awake the next morning to the sound of a B-2 stealth bomber
and two F-22 fighter jets flying overhead. The Rose Parade." |
|
| OCEAN
AVENUE
"With my head to my right knee, I feel the vibration of my
BlackBerry in my pocket... | | PALISADES
It’s near the beach, he argues. What it’s not near is any of us. |
| NOAH'S
We follow the caravan of luxury sedans to the predetermined Noah’s Bagels... |
| HOLY
COW
“I thought we’d pick up some food at Holy Cow on Third..." |
| AHMANSON
Leo and I are standing at the end of a row at the Ahmanson Theatre trying to find
our seats. | | HUNTINGTON
HOSPITAL
Our family always goes to the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena,
otherwise known as the Caesars Palace of hospitals. |
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| ALL
SAINTS CHURCH
There’s a little side door hidden just behind the altar.
I bet there’s no kindly rector waiting for me behind Door Number Two. |
| GUS'
BBQ
“Is Gus’ Barbeque still on Fair Oaks in South Pas?” Leo asks,
his hand woven through his motorcycle helmet." |
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| CALIFORNIA
TERRACE
A street so tree-lined and idyllic it all but bullied me
into buying seasonal wreaths and happy-go-lucky welcome mats. |
| CONNIE'S
APARTMENT
"Okay, there it is. It's a town house, that one...the beigey
one on the corner," Abigail says... |
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THE
BOOKS 
