| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
179 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"A literature professor, ... Andrew Meredith's father was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It's a transgression [he] cannot forgive, for it brought about long-lasting familial despair ... [He] treads water, stuck in a kind of suspended adolescence--falling in and out of school, moving blindly from one half-hearted relationship to the next ... Broke, Andrew moves back home to his childhood neighborhood ... and takes a job alongside his father as a 'remover,' the name for those unseen, unsung workers who take away the bodies of those who die at home ... [and] begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but as a sympathetic, imperfect man who loves his family despite his flaws"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Meredith, Andrew, 1975-
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Meredith, Andrew, 1975- -- Family.
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Young men -- United States -- Biography.
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Fathers and sons -- United States.
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Coming of age.
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Forgiveness.
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Corpse removals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
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| ISBN |
9781476761213 (hbk.) |
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1476761213 (hbk.) |
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9781476761220 (pbk.) |
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1476761221 (pbk.) |
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