{"product_id":"9781476761220","title":"The Removers: A Memoir","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMeredith, Andrew\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eScribner\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e7\/14\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s a transgression that resulted in such long-lasting familial despair that Andrew cannot forgive him. In the wake of the scandal, he frantically 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. When Andrew is forced to move back home to his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia and take a job alongside his father as a “remover,” the name for those unseen, unsung men whose charge it is to take away the dead from their last rooms, he begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but through that of a sympathetic, imperfect man.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCalled “artful” and “compelling” by Thomas Lynch in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Meredith’s poetic voice is as unforgettable as his story, and “he tucks his bittersweet childhood memories between tales of removals as carefully as the death certificates he slips between the bodies he picks up and the stretcher-like contraption that transports each body to the waiting vehicle” (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e). “Potent” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), and “ultimately rewarding” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Removers\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing, coming-of-age memoir with “lyrical language and strong sense of place” (\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43404865863935,"sku":"9781476761220","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781476761220_s600x595.jpg?v=1780500451","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781476761220","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}