![]() ![]() He has always been considered weird, and the people in this Midwestern town have long pegged him as a "a careless, spacey, moon-eyed idiot." Now he has witnessed a crime and "couldn't identify the man" who did it.įinn's neighbor Charlie Valentine describes Bone Gap as "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." And this is where Finn must go to rescue Roza. Finn is the only witness to her driving off with the stranger "who moves like a cornstalk in the wind." When Finn can't describe the man, people look on him with suspicion. Sean falls in love with Roza, but she later - inexplicably - leaves Bone Gap with a mysterious man. Their lives are brightened by the appearance of Roza, 19, a sweet, lovely Polish girl who shows up on their farm one day with unexplained broken ribs and bruises. ![]() She has run off to Oregon with a new boyfriend, leaving the two young men to fend for themselves. ![]() Finn O'Sullivan and his older brother, Sean, are carrying the mighty weight of their mother's rejection. Laura Ruby creates a dark and terrifying alternate world in the ominously titled "Bone Gap," a novel for young people that deals with serious adult and criminal issues. ![]()
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