Fiction
February 2017
One Good Mama Bone
A Novel
by Bren McClain
Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her “mama bone,” after she is left to care for a boy who is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend. McClain's writing is distinguished by a sophisticated and detailed portrayal of the day-to-day realities of rural poverty and an authentic sense of time and place that marks the best southern fiction. One Good Mama Bone explores the strengths and limitations of parental love, the healing power of the human-animal bond, and the ethical dilemmas of raising animals for food.
