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Salt Bones
by Jennifer Givhan
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Salt Bones is a story of secrets, murder, and heartbreak, and it is a book that once again proves that humans are the worst monsters of all.
Malamar's sister Elena disappeared years ago, a tragedy she has, understandably, never gotten over. Now a mother of two young women, Mal faces her greatest nightmare when one of her own daughters disappears.
There is much that has already been taken by the rich white people who moved into the area decades ago - land, water rights, and more, and Mal is determined to figure out, once and for all, who or what is responsible for the girls' vanishing. The local legend of a woman with the head of a horse plays into the community's fears, and whether this myth is a friend or a foe, Mal will find her daughter, and the rest of the girls.
I was not surprised to find out that Jennifer Givhan is also a poet, given the lyricism of her prose, descriptive and beautiful within the horrors of the plot. The timeliness of a story where one people take everything they can from another is in sharp contrast to the strength of a mother who will fight monsters of any kind to keep her children safe. My first book by this author, but not my last.
Malamar's sister Elena disappeared years ago, a tragedy she has, understandably, never gotten over. Now a mother of two young women, Mal faces her greatest nightmare when one of her own daughters disappears.
There is much that has already been taken by the rich white people who moved into the area decades ago - land, water rights, and more, and Mal is determined to figure out, once and for all, who or what is responsible for the girls' vanishing. The local legend of a woman with the head of a horse plays into the community's fears, and whether this myth is a friend or a foe, Mal will find her daughter, and the rest of the girls.
I was not surprised to find out that Jennifer Givhan is also a poet, given the lyricism of her prose, descriptive and beautiful within the horrors of the plot. The timeliness of a story where one people take everything they can from another is in sharp contrast to the strength of a mother who will fight monsters of any kind to keep her children safe. My first book by this author, but not my last.