Bones Become Flowers - Softcover

Mowry, Jess

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6 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883573912 ISBN 13: 9781883573911

Publisher: Orchard House Pr, 2001

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When an American humanitarian embarks on a mission to Haiti in the hopes of lending financial support to a local orphanage, her curiosity about some of the residents opens doors best left closed. Finding herself immersed in a frightening and unfamiliar culture of Voodoo and black magic, Tracy must learn to trust the unseen, the unknowable and the miraculous in order to discover the truth about J�r�mie, Haiti and those who dwell there.

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About the Author:

Jess Mowry was born in Mississippi and raised in Oakland, California. In 1988, at age 28, he began writing stories for and about the street kids in his West Oakland neighborhood. His first story, One Way, was published by the San Francisco literary magazine, ZYZZYVA, in December of that year. His first book, Rats in the Trees, a collection of stories about Oakland kids, was published in 1990. Since then he has had five novels published in eight languages; his short stories have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including Brotherman, In The Tradition, Obsidian II, and Shooting Star Review. His second novel, Way Past Cool, was produced as a feature-length film, for which he co-wrote the screenplay. He also mentors young writers.

Review:

"A novel that is so compelling and so sensuous, so visionary and authentic, that the deeper you get into it the clearer you see how skillfully Mowry balances its tenderness with its brutality, its compassion with its obsession. Written in prose that is both flexible and controlled, it's a novel full of contrasting parts, ideas and elements -- dignity and desperation, art and life, self-reliance and 'fate,' a ship of 'wild' boys and a humanitarian American woman, a seasoned novelist and a precocious, doomed, beautiful child-genius. Set in a magical place -- Jeremie, Haiti -- Mowry's story is one of a strange sea voyage, of commonplace miracles, shanties... Voodoo, and the bright colors of death. But in this moonlit wasteland the power of redemption is equal to the devastation." Clarence Major, author of Dirty Bird Blues -- Publisher Comments

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