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As he got older, they called him Pretty Boy.

When he was little, they called him Spaceman. Laura Ruby seamlessly blends elements of contemporary realistic fiction and fantasy in this mesmerizing and beautiful novel. There is Finn The people of Bone Gap called Finn a lot names, but none of them was his name. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go.Īs we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap-their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures-acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness-a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are. Publishers Summary Bone Gap is the story of Roza, a beautiful girl who is taken from a quiet Midwestern town and imprisoned by a mysterious man, and Finn, the only witness, who cannot forgive himself for being unable to identify her kidnapper. Finn and Sean O’Sullivan are brothers who live in their hometown of Bone Gap.

But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. Who are you going to blame?įinn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. That’s just how things go, the people said. And she has done so with the smart and lyrical prose you should expect from her by now. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. Laura Ruby has built a totally believable ghost world where spirits filled with loss and longing replay their final moments, obsess over their deaths, fixate on the living, and pass easily through walls. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps-gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever.