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michael_d_barnett 's review for:
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
A friend of mine recommended this novel to me probably 25 years ago (Nicole D., if you're reading this, THANK YOU!) and I have finally gotten around to reading it. I loved every facet of this large, poetic, unlikely and very un-PC novel. It's characters are larger than life, angrier and more wounded and aching than the average protagonists, than any author these days would dare to portray, yet they breathe on the page like friends and family, the kind you love and hate at the same time. Their struggles are real, and the language of the novel evinces real pain, real sadness, so that at times it is difficult to read. Still, the plot rocks on with such inexorable certainty, like a great weight in high gravity, and it becomes unbearable to not reach the end, even when one wants it to continue.