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The Undertaker's Daughter
The Undertaker's Daughter
Author: Kate Mayfield
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 fath...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781476757285
ISBN-10: 1476757283
Publication Date: 1/13/2015
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Gallery Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 10
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kimberlyrav avatar reviewed The Undertaker's Daughter on + 417 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book had me enthralled from page one to the very end. It brought out a lot of emotion in me in so many ways.
The book is a true story from the author and her life in growing up in a funeral home and having an undertaker as a dad. There were so many elements about the past with desegregation, prejudice as well.
The book was a birds eye view into bodies being received, prepared and displayed for each family who choose their particular funeral home. I learned quite a bit. I cried, I laughed and I loved this book!
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wvflatlander avatar reviewed The Undertaker's Daughter on + 86 more book reviews
This book started out very interesting, but somewhere around the halfway point I started to get frustrated and lost interest the story.... there were so many characters to keep track of and the timeline seemed very "jumpy".... I often couldn't figure out what year, decade, etc. this was happening.


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