| Management number | 224349734 | Release Date | 2026/05/09 | List Price | $3.60 | Model Number | 224349734 | ||
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Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers 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. Read more
| ASIN | B077KGY4CD |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1773051871 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 6.4 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | ECW Press |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 489 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | April 3, 2018 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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