FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
FICTION / Horror
FICTION / Literary
Print ISBN: 978-1-941360-55-2
Digital ISBN: 978-1-941360-56-9
Paperback, 5.25" x 8" • 176 pages
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest. As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what’s left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.
Praise for These Bones
"Chenault’s short but powerful gothic work blends the best elements of folklore, horror, the blues, and archival history in resonant and lyrical prose. Fans of alternate histories, suspenseful literary fiction, and Black speculative fiction will be hooked on piecing together this intricate, entrancing tale."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Kayla Chenault has created something truly exquisite: a rich tapestry whose gorgeous poetics never obscure its themes or narrative. From beginning to end, These Bones is a sheer pleasure of Dalloway-esque perspectives, postmodernist structures, joined histories, and the ghosts they reveal."
—Stacy D. Flood, author of The Salt Fields
"What a remarkable book. A generational history viewed obliquely through vignettes of various voices, songs, sermons, and ephemera full of magical realism, horror, righteous anger, sorrow, betrayal, love and revenge. Utterly original. It's a gut punch."
—Alana Haley, Nicola's Books
"Chenault brings forth a history that isn't buried as far underground as once thought, a history soiled with horror and ferocity that finds harmony in the stunning prose."
—Caitlin Chung, author of Ship of Fates
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