One good mama bone : a novel

McClain, Bren (author.). Monroe, Mary Alice, (writer of supplementary content.).

Summary: "Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "Sister." When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah's fear that her mother's words, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six, were a prophesy: "You ain't got you one good mama bone in you, girl."

Item details

ISBN: 9781611177466
ISBN: 1611177464
ISBN: 9781611177473
ISBN: 9781611179828 (softcover) :
ISBN: 1611179823 (softcover) :
Physical Description: print
xi, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

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Poor women South Carolina Fiction
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
FICTION / Small Town & Rural

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Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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