"The Undertaker's Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield....Her compelling, complicated family and cast of characters stay with you long after you close the book" (Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy & Wills and Driving With Dead People).

How does one live in a house of the dead? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.

After Kate Mayfield was born, she was...

In the absence of death, true darkness emerges.