num_pages: 309
description: Greenville County, South Carolina, is home to Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious - until their final, harrowing encounter.
language: English
title: Bastard Out of Carolina
titlecomplete: Bastard Out of Carolina
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 43714
places: Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Plume