Drugs and their devastating effects have reached into many families, including the well-to-do Toppings. Still reeling from the loss of mining jobs and the 2008 recession, the community’s young people have decided that their only escape from the despair of their town is via drugs. Particularly hard-hit is West Virginia, the state where the novel takes place it had the highest number of opioid deaths in the nation in 2016.Īcker’s Gap is certainly not immune to this epidemic. Keller’s previous mystery, Fast Falls the Night, in which she wrote about the opioid crisis that is creating devastation across the country. But reading Bone on Bone so quickly is nearly a crime in itself, so beautifully written and poignant is the story.īone on Bone reads as a sequel to Ms. My friends and family know that I’m a fast reader and can read a book of 300 pages in a day if I’m not interrupted by unimportant things like cooking and cleaning.
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