The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu

The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan LuThe Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break up. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, The Funeral Cryer takes a leap of faith and in so doing things start to take a surprising turn for the better . . . Dark, moving and

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