The undertaker's daughter
"Kate Mayfield's first foray into nonfiction is a vivid Southern memoir that reads like a novel, about growing up in Jubilee, Kentucky as the daughter of a charismatic but troubled small-town undertaker--imagine Mad Men's Sally Draper growing up in the world of The Help"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gallery Books,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "Kate Mayfield's first foray into nonfiction is a vivid Southern memoir that reads like a novel, about growing up in Jubilee, Kentucky as the daughter of a charismatic but troubled small-town undertaker--imagine Mad Men's Sally Draper growing up in the world of The Help"-- What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker 1960s. Jubilee, Kentucky. It was a segregated, god-fearing community where no one kept secrets-- except the ones they were buried with. The family saw it all.... including the quiet ruin of her father, who hid alcoholism and infidelity behind a cool, charismatic exterior. |
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| Physical Description: | 350 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781476757285 (hardback) 1476757283 (hardback) 9781476757292 (trade paper) 1476757291 (trade paper) |
