The relationship between 19-year old Griff and her aging grandfather anchors a story that involves brothers and sisters, children and step-children, spouses and exes, marriages frayed to nothing, bonds stronger than bone built from love and loyalty. There’s the sheriff, a dying man who longs for an old love; Kenneth, a boy who longs not for his blood father but for the man who loves him as a father would; Paul, the young man who loves Griff; Marin, the sister who might again love Einer—and, at the novel’s heart, there are Griff and Einer, granddaughter and grandfather. These interrelated people, portrayed with unsentimental honesty and entwined by blissfully good writing, make Bone Fire the elegant, heartfelt, and incandescent novel that it is. Spragg is a wonder.
