The author brings the titular town to vivid life through the subtly mystical story of high-school senior Finn O’Sullivan, nicknamed Moonface by the townies for his inability to look people in the eye. But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things. Small-town America is no simple thing in Laura Ruby’s novel Bone Gap, winner of the 2016 Printz Award. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. He knows she was kidnapped by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But Finn knows what really happened to Roza. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. “When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store.
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