Justine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband's death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justine and her three grown children - a former Bay Area activist at odds with her hometown's customs, a social climbing realtor stifled by the loss of her only child, and a disillusioned politician struggling with his sexual identity, the matriarch is forced to face her grief head-on. By reconciling a past tied to her secret involvement in civil rights activism during the early 1970's in St. Louis, Justine quickly learns the more she attempts to make peace with her history, the more skeletons continue to rise to the surface.
Excerpts from BONE BROTH have been featured in Eleven Eleven, The Offing, Joyland, The Stockholm Review of Literature and Entropy.
Justine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband's death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justine and her three grown children - a former Bay Area activist at odds with her hometown's customs, a social climbing realtor stifled by the loss of her only child, and a disillusioned politician struggling with his sexual identity, the matriarch is forced to face her grief head-on. By reconciling a past tied to her secret involvement in civil rights activism during the early 1970's in St. Louis, Justine quickly learns the more she attempts to make peace with her history, the more skeletons continue to rise to the surface.
Excerpts from BONE BROTH have been featured in Eleven Eleven, The Offing, Joyland, The Stockholm Review of Literature and Entropy.
St. Louis-born and Bay Area trained, Lyndsey Ellis, is a fiction writer and essayist who is passionate about Black intergenerational relationships and resiliency in the Midwest. She was the recipient of the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Jackson Literary Award in 2016 and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund in 2018 for the completion of her novel, BONE BROTH, published by Hidden Timber Books.
Lyndsey Ellis digs deep into the history and psyche of St. Louis's
Black community to share the complicated lives of a mother and her
three grown children living in the shadow of Michael Brown's
murder. The characters are tender and caustic. They fight one
another as families do and hold secrets to their chests like cards
in a poker game, afraid someone will call their bluff. Bone Broth
is an engaging, thought-provoking read. Melanie S. Hatter, author
of Malawi's Sisters
With a sharp eye for detail that brings every character to bright,
shining life, Lyndsey Ellis fearlessly explores the secrets that
are a family's true inheritance. Bone Broth broke my heart and put
it back together in even better shape. Chris L. Terry, author of
Black Card
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