The Undertaker
A Memoir of the First Woman Funeral Director in the Core of Brooklyn
The Undertaker is Laura Del Gaudio’s gripping story of learning the family undertaking business from under the kitchen table as a child. It is how she learned empathy in the face of unspeakable traumas. Licensed at the age of twenty-one she became a third-generation funeral director who ran a successful funeral home which was located at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. The author has written an original story out of her own experience of growing up. The Undertaker is about joy, suffering, family, community, healing, triumph, and what it means to be loyal. If you have the courage to read this book you will learn alot about real life and death.
“A remarkably beautiful read that stays with you for days and calls you to read it again. Here’s to dreams made real!”
-Mary Morrissey, international speaker, best selling author and founder of Brave Thinking Institute
A portion of the proceeds from the book are donated to St. Jude Research Hospital
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About the author
Laura Del Gaudio is an award winning author who was raised in Brooklyn. Her formal education was cut short by father’s illness. She became the third-generation in the family business and one of the first women funeral directors in New York. She has one son and his family whom she adores. Still in New York, Laura Del Gaudio lives with her cat Muffy.
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