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THE BONES OF PARADISE
By: Jonis Agee
William Morrow
August 2017
On Sale: July 25, 2017
448 pages
ISBN: 0062413481
EAN: 9780062413482
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Romance Historical | Romance Western
Ten years after the 7th Calvary massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J. B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J. B.βs land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: his cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his young sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennettβs and their damning secrets are revealedβexposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future. A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Ageeβs bold new novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked landβits sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessnessβand the durable men and women who dared to tame it. Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty that defined the settling of the American west.
βThe finest western novel since Lonesome Dove.β βNew York Journal of Books
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