The Removers
A Memoir
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: 179 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Meredith, Andrew, 1975-
Meredith, Andrew, 1975- -- Family.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- United States.
Coming of age.
Forgiveness.
Corpse removals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
Meredith, Andrew, 1975-
Meredith, Andrew, 1975- -- Family.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- United States.
Coming of age.
Forgiveness.
Corpse removals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781476761213 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Meredith, Andrew | Wheatley (Shandon) | Biography | In |