Book description
An eerie Appalachian town. A fatal fire. Three women whose fates intertwine . . .
Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive Essa…
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1 author picked Hollow Bones as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In this book, the author reveals herself to be a mistress of the craft as the storyline is deftly spooled out and never dips into a lull or period of tedium.
It is an impressive feat to keep the reader’s interest line by line. Then there is this gothic plot. I listened to Wright discuss the inspiration of this story at a book festival panel called “American Gothic,” where she explained the profound influence of the Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure, and how it formed a loose framework for this novel.
That said, though, this story is so refreshingly…
From Mary's list on delving deeply into the complexities of Gothic fiction.
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