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Salvage the Bones takes place over twelve days told in twelve chapters surrounding Hurricane Katrina. The main character, Esch is the only girl living in a family of rambunctious boys. Her mother died during childbirth and her father is an alcoholic stumbling through life and struggling to help his family survive. The family lives in a trailer home on the pit in Mississippi near the Gulf of Mexico. Esch is in high school and her summer homework entails reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton. As Esc ...more
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