| Description |
484 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A misFit book." |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Missing persons -- Fiction.
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Solitude -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Secrecy -- Fiction.
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Small cities -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781770414167 (paperback) |
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1770414169 (paperback) |
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9781773051864 (PDF) |
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1773051865 (PDF) |
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9781773051857 (ePub) |
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1773051857 (ePub) |
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