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The Undertakers Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield.Her compelling, complicated family and cast of characters stay with you long after you close the book Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy Wills and Driving With Dead People. How does one live in a house of the dead? 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 Roachs Stiff. After Kate Mayfield was born, she was taken directly to a funeral home. Her father was an undertaker, and for thirteen years the family resided in a place nearly synonymous with death, where the living and the dead entered their house like a vapor. In a memoir that reads like a Harper Lee novel, Mayfield draws the reader into a world of haunting Southern mystique.



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