![]() ![]() The Boatwrights – Bone’s mother’s family – are a raucous, quick-tempered, violent, passionate, and intensely loving family. ![]() By novel’s end, it’s clear that Bone’s healing will come through talking and singing with family members. As it tells the story of the sexual abuse Bone suffers at the hands of her stepfather, the novel looks unflinchingly at the physical and psychological brutality and destruction such abuse leaves in its wake.īut though her stepfather, Daddy Glen, tries to silence and control Bone, it is through finding her voice that she ultimately claims her own life. Ruth Anne Boatwright – called Bone by her family – is the novel’s heroine, but the novel is based in large part on Allison’s own childhood experiences. Sexually abused by her stepfather since the age of five, Dorothy Allison breaks the devastating silence of incest in her 1992 novel, Bastard Out of Carolina. I felt hateful but strong mean but powerful. The spirit of meanness that had come up in me broke out in song and movement. ![]() ![]() Ruth Brown’s “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean.” Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight.”. I sang to myself as I walked, sometimes out loud. ![]()
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