Bone Gap

By Laura Ruby,

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He'd been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide . . .

Everyone knows Boneā€¦

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1 author picked Bone Gap as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I got this book in a subscription book box and was immediately intrigued by the premise. The town of Bone Gap is full of ā€œgaps,ā€ openings to other realities that someone can slip into and disappear. This story is not your usual read. The writer creatively mixes mystery, magic, love, loss, regret, forgiveness, and overcoming. 

The story follows Finn, a teenage boy, who tries to discover why his brotherā€™s girlfriend disappeared, and the girlfriend, who is made a prisoner because sheā€™s beautiful. 

The book made me think about a lot of things: that there is a difference between looking atā€¦

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