Description
When forty-year-old Angelina Miranda is told she has stage-four breast cancer, she realizes that everything she has done in her life has not been enough. It has not been nearly enough. And it’s not just that. She realizes that it has all been wrong, too. So, with only months to live, Angelina knows she must set things right with her daughter, Sophie, something she regrets she never did with her father. It’s her relationship with her father—complicated by her mother’s tragic accident—that propels teenage Angelina on a reckless course that shapes her life and robs her of the love she craves. Set in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, A Hollow Bone is a rich chronicle of Angelina’s family, their hopes and dreams, and the sharp frailty that makes them human.
Roseann (verified owner) –
A Hollow Bone is a tale woven of the colorful threads that are the lives of three generations of women. As a Wisconsin native and a lover of Sheboygan and Milwaukee I was charmed by the historic details of these cities. What a great read.
Diane Wierth –
Life. Shorter than any of us expect. Life. Full of choices, lessons, joys and heartache. We all wish, no matter our age, we could change things of our past. We can’t. A Hollow Bone is a novel relative to all of these. Dawn Hogue has captured the essence of not only her characters lives, but our own. Her novel should be required reading in the very class she taught, English. Thank you Dawn for this beautifully written, moving novel.
Lisa (verified owner) –
In A Hollow Bone, Dawn Hogue creates a very believable set of characters whose lives are intertwined across three generations in an Italian-German family living in small town Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the mid 20th century. Anyone who has ever had a family will relate to these people and all their regrets, misunderstandings, and abiding love, despite their ongoing disappointment in one another. Through her excellent storytelling, each of the relationships that Hogue explores in her narrative reveals something poignant: mother-daughter, father-daughter, young lovers, husband-wife. This book is a real page-turner because you will want to know what happens to these people. Even more intriguing and lovely are those relationships that develop between neighbors, which are sometimes less fraught with expectation than the relationships between kin. Hogue captures it all in this tale of terminal illness (not just cancer, but life itself) filled with missed opportunities and second chances that come (almost) too late. For me, the sign of a really good book is that it makes me cry. Reading A Hollow Bone, I teared up multiple times. It is that good.
Dorothy –
I read this book from cover to cover in a few days. Three generations of a family come alive through Dawn’s talented writing. The dreams of youth do not always materialize, people suffer tragedies, but the human spirit is strong and forgiveness brings peace. One would never guess that this is Dawn’s first novel. To spin a tale of ordinary people doing their best, and making it a page turner, is indeed an amazing talent.