num_pages: 193
description: The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date.Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. But the house is all they have, and Ree's father would never forfeit it to the bond company unless something awful happened. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive, or else see her family turned out into the unforgiving cold.Sixteen-year-old Ree, who has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. She perseveres past obstacles of every kind and finally confronts the top figures in the family's hierarchy.Along the way to a shocking revelation, Ree discovers unexpected depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.
language: English
title: Winter's Bone
titlecomplete: Winter's Bone
characters: Teardrop Dolly, Ree Dolly
genres: Mystery, Adult Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Thriller, Audiobook, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 35775
places: Ozark Mountains, Missouri
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Little, Brown and Company