About this book
When forty-year-old Angelina Miranda is told she has stage-four breast cancer, she realizes that everything she has done in her life has not been enough. It has not been nearly enough. And it’s not just that. She realizes that it has all been wrong, too. So, with only months to live, Angelina knows she must set things right with her daughter Sophie, something she regrets she never did with her father. It’s that relationship that sets Angelina on a reckless course early in life, robbing her of the love she craves. Set in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, A Hollow Bone is a rich chronicle of Angelina’s family, their hopes and dreams, and the sharp frailty that makes them human.
Reviews
Dawn Hogue tells a powerful story in A Hollow Bone. The writing is strong, and the author is a master of both description and characterization. I feel like I know these people, and I also feel like I know this place. Hogue has artfully woven three generations of a family, brought them together in a singular character (Angelina), and illuminated the entire range of human emotion.
—Signe Jorgenson, Co-Editor in Chief, Stoneboat Literary Journal
This book is a real page-turner because you will want to know what happens to the people in this family. Even more lovely are those relationships that develop between neighbors, which are sometimes less fraught with expectation than the relationships between kin. Hogue captures it all in this tale of terminal illness (not just cancer, but life itself) filled with missed opportunities and second chances that come (almost) too late.
—Lisa Vihos, author of Fan Mail from Some Flounder