13 Bones

Macedonia inherits thirteen divining bones from her mother that have been handed down to her by countless generations. She believes when she throws them she can read their meaning. But do the bones work for her welfare or does she work for the agenda of the bones? Are those characters who live and work at the Maison Rouge Hotel in charge of their own destiny or have they all been drawn to the hotel by some secret power that works only for the bones’ benefit? A white girl bought for $500, a life changing revelation discovered in old pictures, two lives threatened by a storm at sea, a murder, a healing, and the slow but certain linking of generations, all become part of the forces at work in the lives of these characters.

Macedonia inherits thirteen divining bones from her mother that have been handed down to her by countless generations. She believes when she throws them she can read their meaning. But do the bones work for her welfare or does she work for the agenda of the bones? Are those characters who live and work at the Maison Rouge Hotel in charge of their own destiny or have they all been drawn to the hotel by some secret power that works only for the bones’ benefit? A white girl bought for $500, a life changing revelation discovered in old pictures, two lives threatened by a storm at sea, a murder, a healing, and the slow but certain linking of generations, all become part of the forces at work in the lives of these characters.

Tish Knapp lives on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington State, but the background and setting of this book are drawn from her childhood growing up in Pickens, Mississippi. She graduated from Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. While teaching high school English on Orcas she received a scholarship to study for a summer at the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont and later was awarded an NEH grant to study Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson Poetry at Columbia University in New York. She lives on a farm with her husband, an assortment of animals, including ponies, donkeys, llamas, a mule, geese, and two large dogs. This is her second novel.