7/8/2023 0 Comments Salvage to the bones![]() A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. Claude Batiste’s wife, mother of Randall, Skeetah (Jason), Esch and Junior, died a few years ago, right after Junior was born. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting.Īs the twelve days that make up the novel’s framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. Salvage the Bones tells the story of the Batiste family in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, in the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets she’s fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. ![]() A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesnt show concern for much else. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. ![]()
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