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With Gravedigger's Daughter, Cheryl Unruh has created something so fresh and inviting--a memoir in lean vignettes. Each is moving on its own, and also part of a compelling portrait of a childhood in an isolated town with a dwindling population. Unruh's details are too specific for sentimentalism, but places and people are observed with a loving gaze that also feels wise and honest. Her father, especially, emerges as both haunted and quietly heroic. What a beautiful book. -Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone Cheryl Unruh is one of the great chroniclers of life under the Kansas sky, a travel guide into the hearts and minds of people minted on the prairie. A long-time columnist for the Emporia Gazette, Unruh's dad poems in Gravedigger's Daughter remind me of another Kansas journalist, Elfriede Fisher Rowe, who published micro-narratives about people and events in Lawrence. In her new collection, Unruh creates not only an archive of the relationship with her father, but through those remembrances paints the history of Pawnee Rock, her hometown, one four-paragraph brush stroke at a time. -George Frazier, author of The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

"With Gravedigger's Daughter, Cheryl Unruh has created something so fresh and inviting--a memoir in lean vignettes. Each is moving on its own, and also part of a compelling portrait of a childhood in an isolated town with a dwindling population. Unruh's details are too specific for sentimentalism, but places and people are observed with a loving gaze that also feels wise and honest. Her father, especially, emerges as both haunted and quietly heroic. What a beautiful book. -Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone Cheryl Unruh is one of the great chroniclers of life under the Kansas sky, a travel guide into the hearts and minds of people minted on the prairie. A long-time columnist for the Emporia Gazette, Unruh's ""dad poems"" in Gravedigger's Daughter remind me of another Kansas journalist, Elfriede Fisher Rowe, who published micro-narratives about people and events in Lawrence. In her new collection, Unruh creates not only an archive of the relationship with her father, but through those remembrances paints the history of Pawnee Rock, her hometown, one four-paragraph brush stroke at a time. -George Frazier, author of The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes"

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"For 11 years Cheryl Unruh wrote a weekly newspaper column, ""Flyover People,"" for William Allen White's newspaper, The Emporia Gazette. Her books of Kansas essays, Flyover People and Waiting on the Sky, published by Quincy Press, both received Kansas Notable Book Awards. Cheryl's collection of poetry, Walking on Water, was published by Meadowlark Press. She is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a journal of Kansas creative nonfiction. Cheryl lives in Emporia, Kansas."

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