The unclaimed : abandonment and hope in the city of angels / Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans.

"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 mos...

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