"The Gravedigger's Daughter"@en . "PS3565.A8 G73 2007" . "70823287" . "592"^^ . "813/.54 22" . . "ISBN 0061236829 (first edition, hardback)" . . "The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide. Oates explained that she decided to write about her family only after her parents died (in 2000 and 2003), adding that her \"family history was filled with pockets of silence."@en . . . . . .