Why a Booktrail?
1950s: Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family.
Bastard Out of Carolina
What you need to know before your trail
Bone – christened Ruth Anna Boatwright – lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt’s houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, wanting her mother too, and when he promises a new life for the family, her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different, terrible world, living in fear, and an exile from everything she knows.
Travel Guide
Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright lives with her mother and sister in Greenville South Carolina, the very hometown of author Dorothy Allison
Bone is part of a huge family but has had a childhood no child should ever have to experience. They are an odd and poor bunch – many of them often drunk and with a mother that can’t or won’t protect her. Bone tells the story through her own eyes and it’s inspired by that of the author herself.
The booktrail gives a postive and happy insight into the town given the subject matter of the book.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Bastard Out of Carolina
Author/Guide: Dorothy Allison Destination: South Carolina Departure Time: 1950s
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