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Also by Jennifer Givhan:

Salt Bones, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
River Woman, River Demon, October 2022
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Jubilee, November 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Jubilee, October 2020
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Trinity Sight, October 2020
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Salt Bones
Jennifer Givhan

Little Brown and Company
August 2025
On Sale: July 22, 2025
384 pages
ISBN: 0316581526
EAN: 9780316581523
Kindle: B0D2LBNHJG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy Magical Realism

For fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and Ramona Emerson’s Shutter: a gripping retelling of Persephone and Demeter in the Mexicali borderlands

At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . .

Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life: She’s raised two children, worked hard, and tried to forget the painful, unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. As a desperate Mal hunts for answers, her search becomes increasingly tangled with inscrutable visions of a horse-headed woman, a local legend who Mal feels compelled to follow. Mal’s perspective is joined by the voices of her two daughters, all three of whom must work to uncover the truth about the missing girls in their community before it's too late.

Combining elements of Latina and Indigenous culture, family drama, mystery, horror, and magical realism in a spellbinding mix, Salt Bones lays bare the realities of environmental catastrophe, family secrets, and the unrelenting bond between mothers and daughters.

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