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The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN: 9780007254965
Release Date: 03 Sep 2007
Average rating: (read by 9 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the town's prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss, and in an attempt to put her past behind her, young Rebecca Schwart moves on, across America and through a series of listless marriages, in search of somewhere, and someone, to whom she can belong.

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	kalbro
	Rated it 4 months ago

This book , I thought was dark & somewhat disturbing as most of JCO books are, but well worth reading

	minka
	Rated it 7 months ago

My first Joyce Carol Oates book, it was different than expected but I enjoyed how events that seemed insignificant earlier in the book were more meaningful later.

	soochoi
	Rated it 9 months ago

I hate it that my train ride is so short because this books gets to me. I have missed my stop three times because I was enthralled in the story.

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