{"product_id":"the-bones-of-paradise-9780062413482","title":"The Bones of Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of\u003cem\u003e The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRiver Wife\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of \u003cem\u003eThe Bones of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers. Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister, Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee's bold novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land--its sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass, and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessness--and the durable men and women who dared to tame it. Intimate and epic, \u003cem\u003eThe Bones of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty that defined the settling of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgee, Jonis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jonis Agee has been praised by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Books of the Year \u003cem\u003eSweet Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStrange Angels\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523421245714,"sku":"9780062413482","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd34660d-7d4f-4f0c-9733-7ec2bf7b3abb.jpg?v=1731147240","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bones-of-paradise-9780062413482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}