How to describe/review this book? Nothing I can say would do this novel justice. It breaks rules. Is it a fairytale? Not really, but it does read like one - however, in Bone Gap you feel the characters are real; their pain, emotions, actions are true - and you care what happens to them. There are hints of Ray Bradbury and his portraits of small-town Americana. Everyone knows (or think they know) everyone else’s business. Busybodies? Or caring neighbours? And then in comes a whiff of Stephen King - fields of corn as a character ring a bell?
Above all, Laura Ruby’s language is beautiful and original. Her descriptions of landscape are lyrical: “The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness - a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon…..” How gorgeous is that?
I need to re-read this book to fully appreciate it’s gifts.
Highly recommended to all!