The Bones of Paradise

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Ten years after the Seventh Calvary massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J. B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of J.B.s family: his cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and teenage young sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their damning secrets is revealedexposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future.

A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agees bold new novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked landits sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessnessand the durable men and women who dared to tame it.

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-The Bones of Paradise is part noir, part Western, and all kinds of good . . . a remarkable tale of greed and violence . . . Jonis Agee is a master novelist.---Dallas Morning News