{"product_id":"9781770414167","title":"The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDefiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table. \u003cem\u003eWally\u003c\/em\u003e, it says, \u003cem\u003eI will not live in a tarpaper shack for the rest of my life . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLulu tells no one, and months later she buries the note in the woods. At the age of ten, she starts running — and forgetting — lurching through her unraveled life, using the safety of solitude and detachment until, at fifty, she learns that she is not the only one who carries a secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHopeful, lyrical, comedic, and intriguingly and lovingly told, \u003cem\u003eThe Very Marrow of Our Bones\u003c\/em\u003e explores the isolated landscapes and thorny attachments bred by childhood loss and buried secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057663885552,"sku":"9781770414167","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770414167_p0.jpg?v=1763707943","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770414167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}