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By Megan Chance

ISBN-10: 1612184847

ISBN-13: 9781612184845

Selected through Amazon's editors as a top ebook of the Month in Literature & Fiction, December 2012

In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works along her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay within the Pacific Northwest. At evening she maintains her father’s lifelong obsession: collecting artifacts and learning the local tradition that when thrived within the Washington Territory.

On her thirty seventh birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy sticking out from the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by way of all proof shouldn’t exist. As Leonie searches for solutions to the mummy’s origins, she starts to suppose a magical connection to it that defies all common sense. Leonie’s experience that otherworldly forces are at paintings purely grows whilst information of the impressive discovery brings Junius’s lengthy misplaced son, Daniel, to her doorstep. Upon his unforeseen arrival, a local elder insists that Leonie put on a different shell bracelet for cover. yet safety from whom? the mum? or even Daniel?

Leonie has consistently been an excellent daughter and stable spouse, yet for the 1st time, those roles don't appear to be sufficient. discovering the mum has replaced every thing, and now Leonie needs to come to a decision if she has the braveness to place apart the expectancies of others to be the girl she was once intended to be.

From award-winning writer Megan probability, Bone River is a haunting, lyrical story of ardour and identity.

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85 But the people have been dazzled so thoroughly that in silent delight they quaff the evil potion that poisons their souls. Boredom moves slowly in a sluggish dance, expiring in the agony of its own impotence. The only good thing about that city of lights is that you can steep your soul in lifelong hatred for the power of stu­ pidity.. 1906 The Mob . The window of my room overlooks a square; all day long people pour into it from five streets very much like potatoes rolling out of sacks. They mill around and then scurry on, and again the streets suck them into their gullets.

The Mob knows who he is, too ; he is often described in the newspapers as a maniac who wants to destroy the state, to take away all the factories, railroads, ships-to take away everything . The papers call this a mad ridicu­ lous project. The Mob stares at the old man with reproach, with cold condemnation, with scornful curiosity. A mad­ man is always interesting. The Mob only senses, only sees. It cannot convert its im­ pressions into thoughts; its spirit is numb and its heart blind. . People walk along, one after another, and this is strange, incomprehensible, inexplicable-where are they going, and why?

T this man had paid dear for his clothes . \'Let me introduce myself,'' he began, with a sigh and a sidelong glance at the window. ''I'm a professional sinner, so to speak. . '' I asked, trying to hide my dismay "I'm a professional sinner," he repeated word for word, ahd added: "My speciality is offences against public moral­ ity� . was nothing but humility in the tone in which the sentence was spoken; nor did I catch a shade of penitence in his words or fa<;:e. ' · · • " • . " I sug­ gested.

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