![]() ![]() Wanhope Lyons, a retired doctor who senses death approaching, receives a letter from an eager archaeology student who would like to learn more about Wanhope’s childhood in the Bramble Patch, as preparation for a planned dig. In this keen, smart, and unsettling debut novel, the residents of a besieged Black community known as the Bramble Patch seize moments of joy and redemption even as they are relentlessly ground down by racism, poverty, and the oppression of their wealthier and whiter neighbors in Napoleonville. A different but no less frightening Barghest haunts Kayla Chenault’s These Bones. ![]() In folklore, a Barghest is a huge dog with sharp teeth and claws its appearance portends death. ![]()
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