The gravedigger's daughter : a novel
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Published
New York : Ecco, c2007.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
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Published
New York : Ecco, c2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6, 30 Points

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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, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet - but very "American" - triumph. "You are born here, they will not hurt you" - so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.