Bone Gap
National Book Award Finalist * Printz Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book of the Year
“Ruby’s novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary.”—School Library Journal
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.
So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. But Finn knows what really happened to Roza. He knows she was kidnapped by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember.
As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a tale of the ways in which the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.
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"The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."
If you write it, readers will come.
It's hard to put into words just how amazing this book is.
Essentially, the story revolves around a Polish girl named Roza who is kidnapped by a faceless man from the rural town of Bone Gap.
Such a simple story, but I was sucked into this world and mesmerized by the characters, the mystery, and the corn field (a bit of the magical realism from the movie Field of Dreams).
I suppose what I enjoyed most was the brilliant retelling of the Persephone myth - references to the River Styx, hell hounds, the beginning of fall when Roza returns home, and even the one-liners from The Odyssey:
"Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky..."
If you write it, readers will come.
It's hard to put into words just how amazing this book is.
Essentially, the story revolves around a Polish girl named Roza who is kidnapped by a faceless man from the rural town of Bone Gap.
Such a simple story, but I was sucked into this world and mesmerized by the characters, the mystery, and the corn field (a bit of the magical realism from the movie Field of Dreams).
I suppose what I enjoyed most was the brilliant retelling of the Persephone myth - references to the River Styx, hell hounds, the beginning of fall when Roza returns home, and even the one-liners from The Odyssey:
"Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky..."
An odd book, but I enjoyed it. This book isn't easily classified into any one category. There was romance, horror, folktale, angsty YA... I liked it overall but I often found it hard to like in the moment. I kept reading but I didn't love most of the characters. I liked the weird-looking bee girl the best and the goat. I was glad to have finally read it (it kept popping up places) and I'm curious to try another book by this author.
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