Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - North Carolina author's very funny fifth book. From the front flap: "Go by the Baptist Cemetery in Summerlin any Sunday after church and you'll see all kinds of families out there weeding and sweeping the family plots. There's always lots to do-dumping out the potted poinsettias and dusting off the plastic peonies, making sure the kids know everybody dead and how they are kin to everybody living. To most folks, which cemetery, which cemetery plot, which tombstone and what's carved on it are of consequence. And the older you are, the more so. In the Bales-McCord family, two old people are at the point of contemplating their final resting places-Glenn and Laura Bales. Everybody is wondering which one will go first." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 215 pp. ISBN: 1565120108.