Autor: Joyce Carol Oates Izdavac: Ecco, 2007. 582 pages, hardcover In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family`s own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger`s daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet - but very `American` - triumph. `You are born here, they will not hurt you` - so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true. In The Gravedigger`s Daughter, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys.