The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

624 pages 2007

23 editions

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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 family'...

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