Bones and doll5/26/2023 ![]() Author’s agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. Black captures the adolescent sense that things are about to explode before they get explained. ![]() Another crazy quest from Poppy’s fertile brain? Or could this ghost story be real? The wonderfully eerie doll, the realism of the kids’ improbable logic, and the ache underlying every character’s actions create as much a state of existential anxiety as narrative tension. He quits the game, but Alice and Poppy haul him out for one more quest: a bus trip to lay to rest the Queen, a bone china doll that Poppy swears is made from the bones of a murdered girl. While Zach’s at school, the dolls go to the dump, and Zach is left with only rage. Zach is 12, and his father has decided this must stop. Never mind that he’s a solid student and rising basketball star. ![]() ![]() Never mind that they’re action figures, heroes in a wild, improvisational saga he acts out with friends Poppy and Alice. ![]()
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