

Bones of Paradise
A Novel
Author: Jonis Agee
Narrator: Christina Traister
Unabridged: 14 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/02/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Western, Women
Author: Jonis Agee
Narrator: Christina Traister
Unabridged: 14 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/02/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Western, Women
Jonis Agee has been praised by the New York Times Book Review as “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape.” She is the award-winning author of twelve books, including the New York Times Notable Books of the Year Sweet Eyes and Strange Angels. Her awards include the John Gardner Fiction Award, the George Garrett Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, a Loft-McKnight Award, a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction, and two Nebraska Book Awards. A native of Nebraska, Agee teaches at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
In the hills grudges never died, they remained as they took place, as the words were uttered, since there was nowhere for them to go, nothing to break them apart, the soft edges of the hills offered nothing hard enough to smash the anger, nothing sharp enough to cut through the Gordian knot, so......more
My God, how we are destroyed man, this is one meaty book. and it took me forever to read. not because it was boring; it's not that at all. it's just that it moves at a slow, deliberate pace and there are a lot of storylines to absorb, where each character is given their own manifest destiny-style roo......more
I'm not a fan of mysteries or crime stories, but I am a big fan of family sagas and historical fiction so it was this part of the book description that piqued my interest. It takes place in the Sand Hills of Nebraska in 1900, a decade after the horrific and shameful event in American history , the m......more
I’m not generally a reader of mysteries, and frankly, I’m not sure this novel can be billed as one. It is a fabulous conglomerate: a family saga, literary fiction, historical fiction, a love story, a western, and a mystery all wrapped into one. Admittedly, the mystery component of ‘what really happen......more