The Bones Stay

<p><em>The Bones Stay</em> is a short-story collection of five independently-imagined tales twined together by magic consequences and the influence of three root-working sisters. Between a cursed fortune a cul-de-sac where jealousy bakes a fateful pie and the horror of eternity there is a common thread: fear love and the absence of love. Any wish can be a poison and the family tree has eyes.</p><p><br></p><p>Here Green honors the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston by steeping each story with African-American lore and complex female characters. The event horizon of terror and hope builds a home in the pages of <em>The Bones Stay</em>... and that home looks like an old house in the woods either inhabited by three sisters or haunted by them. <em>(Isabel J. Wallace)</em></p>