Bone Broth, Lyndsey Ellis
Bone Broth, Lyndsey Ellis
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Bone Broth
A Novel

Author: Lyndsey Ellis

Narrator: Dasha Kelly Hamilton

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2024

Synopsis

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. Set in a struggling suburb of North St. Louis during the Ferguson unrest in 2014, Bone Broth delivers the touchstones of an inequitable society: violence, suppression, and the human capacity to continue in the face of extreme adversity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on August 22, 2021

Bone Broth was a fantastic read about friends and family, history and secrets, love and pride, grief and mourning, unfolding over months during pivotal protests against police brutality following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The Holmes family is stunned, on the brink between the past and......more

Goodreads review by Nappell on July 23, 2021

This novel about intergenerational relationships is set against the backdrop of the Ferguson/St. Louis-area protests. Ellis is a terrific writer. This is a great read, and Ellis builds suspense throughout the novel. The more you learn about the characters, the more the suspense builds. There are man......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 08, 2021

4.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Kim on April 15, 2021

It seems a cliché to compare reading a novel to peeling an onion, but that is exactly what reading this book felt like. From the opening page, I was enchanted by the protagonist, Justine, and her most unusual “collection.” What is UP with this woman? I wanted to know. And, with each chapter, I learn......more

Goodreads review by G.P. on March 08, 2022

It’s 2015, and the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri are still simmering after the fatal police shooting sparked a national debate about use-of-force law, militarization of police, and the relationship between the police and African Americans. Justine’s adult children, an unemployed former activist who......more

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