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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| Language: | English |
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2015.
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| Edition: | First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The undertaker's daughter / |c Kate Mayfield. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Gallery Books, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a 350 pages ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Mayfield, Katherine, |d 1958- |x Childhood and youth. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Authors, American |y 21st century |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Kentucky |v Biography. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Musser, Martha tribute. | |
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