Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

missing page info Add in missing page information first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary emotional mysterious reflective 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 family'...

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