The Removers : : a Memoir
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"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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 179 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781476761213
1476761213
SUBJECTS
Meredith, Andrew, -- 1975-
Meredith, Andrew, -- 1975- -- Family.
Young men -- Biography.
Fathers and sons.
Coming of age.
Forgiveness.
Corpse removals -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.