Remembering the bones
By: Frances Itani
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780871139771
Subjects: Older women; Traffic accidents; Reminiscing in old age; Fiction
Description: While on her way to the airport to attend Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, Georgina Danforth Witley drives of the edge of the road plunging into a thickly wooded ravine.  Thrown from the car and unable to move, Georgina must rely on her strength, memories, wit and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body to stay alive.