Remembering the Bones - Softcover

"Remembering the Bones is an astonishing feat, an extraordinary reflection on life, death, family--and what it ultimately and genuinely means to be fully human." -- Martin Dickinson "In unpretentious, quietly penetrating prose, Itani exposes the richness and depth beneath the surface of one ordinary life." "With this book, Itani joins a group of novelists who have chronicled quiet lives from start to finish, uncovering treasure in their dark corners: Carol Shields with The Stone Diaries, Marilynne Robinson with Gilead." -- Susann Cokal "[Itani's] unsentimental narrator creates an effective feminine counterpoint to the aged male protagonist in Philip Roth's Everyman.... Itani succeeds in granting Georgie's story nearly as much gravity and loving scrutiny as royal watchers give the queen." -- Donna Rifkind

Invited to Buckingham Palace to attend the eightieth birthday celebration of Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth Witley is on her way to the airport to board a plane for London when her car goes off the road and plunges into a ravine, leaving Georgina stranded and injured as she reflects on her life, family memories, wit, lost loves, and secrets to survive. Reprint.