Description
Born into a life shaped by death and labor, Rebecca sets out on an astonishing journey across America—reinventing herself with daring imagination as she navigates desire, danger, and the brutal limits placed on women. The story moves through time, tracing how her early choices and hard-won resilience lead to a present-day flight from violence, where survival demands both reinvention and reckoning. With an epistolary epilogue that deepens the emotional aftershocks, the novel blends erotic risk with psychological intensity, exploring identity, power, and the stories people tell to endure. In Joyce Carol Oates’s unmistakably propulsive style—part lyrical odyssey, part dark moral inquiry—Rebecca’s pilgrimage becomes a meditation on freedom’s cost and the fierce creativity required to claim a self.
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ebook
HarperCollins
Published Jan 1, 2007
816 pages
ISBN: 9780061444067
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First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.