The book, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, is about relationships between family members, the social class, "white trash", and abuse In the book, there is a young girl by the name of Ruth Anne Boatwright, but goes by the name of Bone Bone's mother hadAllison's first novel, the semiautobiographical Bastard Out of Carolina, was published in 1992 and was one of five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award Allison founded The Independe Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern WritersA profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and "an essential novel" (The New Yorker) "As close to flawless as any reader could ask for The living language Allison has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and
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