Bone Country

<p><strong>​DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE NYC Big Book Awards 2024</strong></p><p></p><p>Linda Nemec Foster's collection of prose poems is a reflection of the world before COVID. All of the pieces are inspired by other parts of the world-Istanbul Rome Krakow Prague Vienna Seville-not the familiar landscape of the United States. But the narrator is definitely not a native of these countries; they are the other the foreigner the American with a distinct Midwest sensibility who is trying to make sense of a world on the brink of an unforeseen catastrophe. The world as we used to know it. </p>