Bones Become Flowers - Softcover

Mowry, Jess

4.33

6 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886383839 ISBN 13: 9781886383838

Publisher: Orchard House Pr, 1999

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When Tracy, an American humanitarian, visits Haiti, she finds herself immersed in a culture of commonplace miracles, shanties, disease, Voodoo and the bright colors of death.

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About the Author:

Jess Mowry lives in Oakland, California.

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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