Esch is also pregnant and the father of the child won’t look Esch in the eye, won’t acknowledge Esch.Īs the motherless family that lives among abandoned cars and chickens prepares for the disaster that’s about to hit them, there are other matters at hand that need to be dealt with first: an alcoholic father, a basketball match that could give Randall a much longed for scholarship, illegal pit bull matches, and a not so secret teenage pregnancy. Esch adores her brother Skeetah, who in turn, only has eyes for his prized pit bull, China - so much so that he often sleeps in the dog shed. Esch and her brother, Randall are default parents to their youngest brother Junior, who doesn’t know what it’s like to have a mother. Salvage The Bones is also a story of love in the ugliest of places, filial affection amidst gut-wrenching poverty and strength where there is no strength to find.Įsch is 15. After having taking nearly 2000 lives and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in material damage, Katrina displaced almost one million people in the gulf coast region. The costliest tropical cyclone on record, the aftermath of the storm was nothing short of catastrophic. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the United States of America in August 2005. Salvage The Bones is a visceral, true to reality novel of a poor family of six in the eye of the storm – Hurricane Katrina.
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