Bone Gap

Publisher Marketing: From acclaimed author Laura Ruby comes a fascinating, powerful, and wholly original novel about a beautiful young woman, a haunted young man, and a secretive Midwestern town. Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren t surprised. After all, it wasn t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O Sullivan on their own. Just a few years ago, their mother hightailed it to Oregon for a brand-new guy, a brand-new life. That s just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame?Finn knows that s not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But the searches turn up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go. As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures 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." Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2015 (EAN 9780062317636, Other) School Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 142 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) Booklist 01/01/2015 pg. 86 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) Romantic Times 03/01/2015 pg. 30 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) BookPage 03/01/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/16/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 03/24/2015 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 05/10/2015 pg. 24 (EAN 9780062317605, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Ruby, Laura Laura Ruby is the author of books for adults, teens, and children, including the Edgar-nominated mystery Lily's Ghosts, the 2006 Book Sense Pick Good Girls, and the acclaimed novels Play Me and Bad Apple. She is on the faculty of Hamline University's MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area.