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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 not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls Sister. When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah s fear that her mother s words, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six, were a prophesy, You ain t got you one good mama bone in you, girl.When Sarah reads in the local newspaper that a boy won $680 with his Grand Champion steer at the recent 1951 Fat Cattle Show & Sale, she sees this as their financial salvation and finds a way to get Emerson Bridge a steer from a local farmer to compete in the 1952 show. But the young calf is unsettled at Sarah s farm, crying out in distress and growing louder as the night wears on. Some four miles away, the steer s mother hears his cries and breaks out of a barbed-wire fence to go in search of him. T

Who reads One Good Mama Bone: A Novel (Story River Books)?

Author

McClain, Bren & Monroe, Mary Alice

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611179828

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.48 / 5 (176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14