The unclaimed
"An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon-the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today-and what it says about the state of our society. For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields-a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pre...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: ashes
- Part 1. alive
- New directions
- Aging in place
- My way
- Van life
- Part 2. forgotten
- Gone
- Investigation
- County dispo
- Part 3. remembered
- The dead don't vote
- A calling
- Steel and sassafras
- Standing in the gap
- Presente
- Epilogue: the kindness of clay
- Afterword: memento mori.
