Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the on

Memoir of Rachael Hanel, daughter of a Minnesota gravedigger, discussing her childhood growing up surrounded by death and thoughts of the grave, and how even th

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

A reminder of relationships, more than skin deep. An examination of the complexities of those we love and care for. This book is a love letter to the people we