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The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

582 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

fiction contemporary historical reflective sad slow-paced
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Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the famil...

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