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Webb, Debra
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Fiction
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2018
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Pink House Press
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English
β 81 KB
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The Undertaker's Daughter: A Memoir
β Scribed by Mayfield, Kate
- Book ID
- 108643874
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 416 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476757285
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β¦ Synopsis
What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.
The first time I touched a dead person, I was too short to reach into the casket, so my father picked me up and I leaned in for that first, empty, cold touch. It was thrilling, because it was an unthinkable act.
After Kate Mayfield was born, she was taken directly to a funeral home. Her father was an undertaker, and for thirteen years the family resided in a place nearly synonymous with death. A place where the living and the dead entered their house like a vapor. The place where Kate would spend the entirety of her childhood. In a memoir that reads like a Harper Lee novel, Mayfield draws the reader into a world of Southern mystique and ghosts.
Kate's father set up shop in...
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