The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

earliest edition we have, 2007 HarperCollins, 2007 ebook

In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America,...

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The Gravedigger's Daughter paperback · 2008 · Harper Perennial · 592 pages · 9780061236839
The Gravedigger's Daughter hardcover · 2007 · Ecco · 592 pages · 9780061236822
The Gravedigger's Daughter ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061444067

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