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Betsy L. Ross

author of THE BONES OF THE WORLD

About the book

Suffering guards its mysteries, but when an upswell of antisemitism forces Rachel into hiding from the Righteous, she begins her journey to its center.

The trip will take her back in history, to Sariah, a young woman whose status during the Inquisition is doubly-marred as a Jew and as a lesbian; and to Jakob, a teenage boy who spends the Holocaust hidden in a farmhouse where he plans his revenge in the only way he can. Back in the present, in the cemetery, the Jewish children murdered by the Righteous wait for their stories to be told.

The Bones of the World asks who we become as a result of suffering. Like Jakob, desiring revenge? Like Sariah, seeking the salve of a community that accepts her? Or like Rachel, opening to the ancestral suffering that is her life’s clay, and her role in the swell of its story?  

The front cover of The Bones of the World by Betsy L. Ross

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About Betsy

Betsy L Ross is a writer, filmmaker, and happily retired attorney. She’s published nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and wrote/directed the documentary Looking for David, about the death of her son from an opioid overdose, available on Amazon Prime. She lives in Salt Lake City, but born and raised in New Orleans, she still “makes groceries,” is always hoping for some “lagniappe” when ordering at Popeyes, and “makes dodo” when she goes to bed at night. This is her first novel.

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