We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter

Name: We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter
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ISBN: 9780816683468

ISBN-10: 0816683468

ISBN-13: 9780816683468

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rachael Hanel

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Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the back of the stone. As she puts it:I grew up in cemeteries.And you don’t grow up in cemeteries—surrounded by headstones and stories, questions, curiosity—without becoming an adept and sensitive observer of death and loss as experienced by the people in this small town. For Rachael Hanel, wandering…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Rachael Hanel has written several nonfiction books for children, in addition to essays and news and magazine articles. Many of her books have focused on history and social studies. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and history and a master's degree in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She works as a writer, college instructor, and university administrator from her home base of Madison Lake, Minnesota.