Inspired by the myth of Persphone and Hades, Laura Ruby weaves a story from multiple directions a complete story only the reader is privy to. With the help of Priscilla Willis, aka “Petey”, Finn discovers something odd and powerful about the small town he calls home. After Roza’s disappearance, many of the townspeople question his sanity, for who can’t remember the way a friend’s kidnapper looked? Knowing he is the only one who can find Roza, Finn tries to piece together what happened to Roza and how she just disappeared. Dubbed “Moonface” by the town bullies, the Rude brothers, for his tendencies to get lost in his head, he’s endearing in an awkward way. Despite its genre, Bone Gap is more than a novel for teens because it focuses on an issue that affects us all: what happens when a loved one leaves?įinn O’Sullivan is a seventeen year old boy left to live with the guilt of witnessing the kidnapping of one of his best friends, Roza. In this YA novel she bridges the gap between reality and the magical by adapting a myth older than history itself.
But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things.In her newest book, Bone Gap, National Book Award winner, Laura Ruby, does right by magical realism. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. “When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store.
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