![]() ![]() Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go.Īs we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap-their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures-acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness-a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. The real magic in Bone Gap is the discovery of love, an idea many stories. ![]() Who are you going to blame?įinn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. A haunting and inventive work that subverts expectations at every turn. That’s just how things go, the people said. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. In this YA novel she bridges the gap between reality and the magical by adapting a myth older than history itself. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. ISBN 9780062317605 368 pages Reviewed by Abby Campbell In her newest book, Bone Gap, National Book Award winner, Laura Ruby, does right by magical realism. Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps-gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. ![]()
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