and the University of the Pennsylvania Law School. She and her husband now live in southwest Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina.
Kistler's new novel is Shell Games.
[Q&A with Bonnie Kistler; The Page 69 Test: The Cage; The Page 69 Test: Her, Too; Writers Read: Bonnie Kistler (July 2023); My Book, The Movie: Shell Games]
At The Nerd Daily Kistler tagged five novels, both classic and contemporary, that have deployed hurricanes to heighten the drama. One title on the list:
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardRead about another novel on the list.
Similar themes can be found in Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward, which depicts a Black family in Mississippi bracing themselves for Hurricane Katrina and later struggling through its aftermath. The novel shows the both the destructive force of the storm and the trauma suffered by its victims. It also shows the role climate change plays in causing such devastation.
Salvage the Bones is among Kai Harris's six top portrayals of Black girlhood in fiction, Christine Hume's ten top feminist retellings of mythology, Michelle Sacks's five books with complex and credible child narrators, Amy Brady's seven books that provocatively tackle climate change, Jodi Picoult's six recommended books, Peggy Frew's ten top books about "bad" mothers, and Jenny Shanks's five least supervised children in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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