A teenage girl and a widowed physics professor try to help each other survive losses they never expected.
”It’s a gutsy, beautiful book.” — Tim Farrington, author of The Monk Downstairs
It’s the summer of 1977 in a small college town, and physics professor David Asken has lost his family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to babysit his … Molly Carmichael used to babysit his daughter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates. David is planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again. Molly is trying to cope with her notorious artist mother’s highly sexual art and highly sexual lifestyle — as well as her own adolescent stirrings — but she’ll have to deal with much worse after a drunken teenage party.
Will the unexpectedly tender connection between girl and man help, or just add a terrible scandal to their problems? This provocative coming-of-age novel asks whether there’s ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right.
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A 2015 Reader’s Choice Nominee.
Warning: If you need trigger warnings, this book is not for you.
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The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire by Sandra Hutchison is an excellent character-driven novel with a controversial and possibly disturbing theme for some readers. It will be difficult to read for survivors of violence both intentional and accidental; it could be difficult to read for their relatives. This is not a trigger warning, there is no need …