{"product_id":"the-gravediggers-daughter-a-novel-p-s","title":"The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel (P.S.)","description":"“The daughter of a Holocaust survivor (the gravedigger of the title) who commits an incredible murder...But she is able to reinvent herself as a peppy salesclerk with a jazz-musician lover and become ‘a living, breathing, complex presence on the page” - New York Times\nIn 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.\nIn The Gravedigger's Daughter, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0061236837\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0061236837.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Oates, Joyce Carol\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41353257091130,"sku":"DBV.0061236837.A","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0061236837-0.jpg?v=1775325086","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-gravediggers-daughter-a-novel-p-s","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}