Call number
A FIC A
Language
Description
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s.
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1992)
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — 1993)
Brooklyn Magazine's Literary United States (South Carolina)
The Great American Novels (1992)