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Welcome to the website of Kate Mayfield. author of The Parentations and The Undertaker’s Daughter. Thank you for visiting! Kate’s debut novel, The Parentations, is published by Point Blank Books. Kate’s memoir, The Undertaker’s Daughter, is published by Simon & Schuster UK and Gallery Books USA. About. Find out more about Kate. Learn More →.
Kate Mayfield is a novelist and memoirist. Her debut novel The Parentations is a work of speculative historical fiction published by Point Blank, an imprint of Oneworld. The Undertaker’s Daughter is a memoir about her childhood in the American South, published by Simon & Schuster UK and Gallery USA.
Jan 13, 2015 · In a memoir that reads like a Harper Lee novel, Mayfield draws the reader into a world of haunting Southern mystique. In the turbulent 1960s, Kate’s father set up shop in sleepy Jubilee, Kentucky, a segregated, god-fearing community where no one kept secrets—except the ones they were buried with.
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Katherine Mayfield is a memoirist, short story writer, poet, and nonfiction author. Born in 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri, she was an actress in New York in the 1980s and '90s, and appeared Off-Broadway and on the daytime drama, Guiding Light.
“ ‘Mayfield’s delightfully rich and uncanny novel, The Parentations, manages to be pacy and addictive, while simultaneously asking profound questions about life and death. Quite unlike anything I’ve ever read before.’
Jan 13, 2015 · What if the place you called “home” happened to be a funeral home? 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.
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 taken directly to a funeral home.
