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

by Rachael Hanel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816683468
• ISBN13: 9780816683468
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good read!!

I felt like I was right there with the author, and because I live in Waseca I knew exactly the places she wrote about. Very interesting read. I read it in 1 day!