Bones Quote by Junot Diaz

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel…

— Jesmyn Ward

“The prisoner, having reached the depth of his depression, gradually reawakens to the life around him. He licks himself and his wounded pride, opens…

— P. H. Newman

“Prisoner of Her Own Captivity”

— Brandalynn Davis

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“Foreword By Jonathan Aitken IN IT is one of the best books on prison life I have read. Jonathan Robinson writes with passion and…

— Jonathan Robinson

“I read this book in one sitting. A WOMAN RESURRECTED is the true, harrowing story of the author's abusive childhood -- from "slave of…

— Cece Cervantes

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant.…

— Skip Horack

“In the Golleschau quarry, stone-carriers were forced to haul huge blocks of limestone endlessly, from one mound to another and back again. During the…

— Anne Michaels

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

— Judith Kelman

“Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.”

— Simon Beckett