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The very marrow of our bones
- Title
- The very marrow of our bones / Christine Higdon.
- Author
- Higdon, Christine,
- Publication
- Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-2299 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 484 pages; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Note
- "A misFit book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes discography (page 482).
- Call Number
- JFD 18-2299
- ISBN
- 9781770414167
- 1770414169
- Author
- Higdon, Christine, author.
- Title
- The very marrow of our bones / Christine Higdon.
- Publisher
- Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- "On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table. "Wally," it says, "I will not live in a tarpaper shack for the rest of my life..." Lulu tells no one, and months later she buries the note in the woods. At the age of ten, she starts running -- and forgetting -- lurching through her unraveled life, using the safety of solitude and detachment until, at fifty, she learns that she is not the only one who carries a secret. Hopeful, lyrical, comedic, and intriguingly and lovingly told, The Very Marrow of Our Bones explores the isolated landscapes and thorny attachments bred by childhood loss and buried secrets."--provided by publisher.
- Bibliography
- Includes discography (page 482).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-2299