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The unclaimed : abandonment and hope in the City of Angels /

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon, the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today, and what it says about the state of our society. For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields, a Dickensian end that even the most h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Prickett, Pamela (Author), Timmermans, Stefan, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Unclaimed dead.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: ashes
  • Part 1. Alive
  • New directions
  • Aging in place
  • My way
  • Van life
  • Part 2. Forgotten
  • Gone
  • Investigation
  • County dispo
  • Part 3. Remembered
  • The dead don't vote
  • A calling
  • Steel and sassafras
  • Standing in the gap
  • Presente
  • Epilogue: the kindness of clay
  • Afterword: memento mori.