The Singing Bone: A Novel

The Singing Bone: A Novel

A convicted killerâ€™s imminent parole forces a woman to confront the nightmarish past sheâ€™s spent twenty years escaping.

I found you.Â Thatâ€™s what Mr. Wyck told her:Â I found you.

1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson canâ€™t wait to graduate from high school so she can escape the small town in upstate New York where she grew up. In the meantime, she and her friends avoid their dysfunctional families while getting high in the woods. There they meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, who lives in the rambling old farmhouse across the reservoir. Enticed by his quasi-mystical philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her friends join Mr. Wyckâ€™s small group of devoted followers. But their heady, freewheeling idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn, as Alice finds herself crossing moral and emotional boundaries that erode her hold on reality. When Mr. Wyckâ€™s grand scheme goes wrong, culminating in a night of horrific violence, Alice is barely able to find her way back to sanity.

Twenty years later, Alice Wood has created a quiet life for herself as a professor of folklore, but an acclaimed filmmaker threatens to expose her past with a documentary about Jack Wyckâ€™s crimes and the cult-like following he continues to attract from his prison cell. Wyck has never forgiven Alice for testifying against him, and as he plots to overturn his conviction and regain his freedom, she is forced to confront the truth about what happened to her in the farmhouseâ€”and her complicity in the evil around her.

The Singing BoneÂ is a spellbinding examination of guilt, innocence, and the fallibility of memory, a richly imagined novel that heralds the arrival of a remarkable new voice in literary suspense.
Country USA
Manufacturer Regan Arts.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Regan Arts.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-03-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Singing Bone: A Novel

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