Book description
Eli Singer, a rancher and poet in remote Eastern Montana, sees his life upended when a long-buried corpseĀwhich turns out to be a murder victim from Eli's childhoodĀerodes out of a hillside on his property. This discovery forces Eli to turn inward to revisit the tragic events in his pastā¦
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1 author picked A Bloom Of Bones as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Allen Morris Jones writes with such grace, humility, and empathy that I just knew, from the earliest paragraphs, that Iād follow him wherever he wanted to go with this one.
I like stories, whether on the page, on film, or in the oral tradition, in which the answers arenāt easy, and Jones obliges. This story of a hardscrabble Montana poet who witnessed something horrible as a child and searches for a way to live with it as an adult moved me in a deep and still way.
Itās one of those books I finished, set quietly down, and thought aboutā¦
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