Book description
Set in the early 1950s rural South, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and…
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A lover of language, character, plot, and place, I was hooked and hog-tied from the first page. Sometimes I like to feel lonesome. Sometimes I like to cry. Sometimes I want to be haunted by a book and never want it to end. Sometimes I want to find myself another To Kill A Mockingbird. Guess what? With One Good Mama Bone, I did.
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