Book Summary
(by Kerry)
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A National Bestsellers and National Book Award Finalist
“Compulsively readable…Allison can make an ordinary moment transcendent with her sensuous mix of kitchen-sink realism and down-home drawl.” – San Francisco Chronicle*
“Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush, place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Ann Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with and annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone “cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty,” yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious—until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.” (Allison backcover)
“A hell of a writer—tough and loose, clear and compassionate.” – Village Voice*