A review by beckimoody29
Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms

5.0

This is one of the most original and beautiful stories I have read. I am glad I read the authors interview first because otherwise I might have put it down immediately. I don't like books that feature the paranormal and that's what it seemed like at first. Misty can talk to the things around her --not just animals but the trees, and water, and the trailer she lives in. But this is really an allegory about trauma and loss, and learning to live with the broken places inside of us. Misty was such an amazing protagonist -- brave and kind and empathetic and strong. Every character has a humanity that makes them --not likable certainly --but whole. We learn their name -- all of them the good and the bad.

Halfway through the book I started highlighting because the writing was so beautiful that I could no longer trust my memory to hold it. Its poetic, and spiritual, and magical. This is one of those books that will not be for everyone, but those who do read it will find themselves haunted by it.