Their bones boiled white.” When caught, Lurie and other thieving boys are deported by train to the lawless West, where his life of crime escalates. He survived by collecting the dead from fleahouses on Bleecker Street or, when business is slow, by exhuming corpses from churchyards, and delivering them to hospitals to be cut up and studied: “Their innards laid out. As a child, Lurie emigrated with his father from Ottoman Herzegovina to New York City, where his father’s sudden death left him orphaned at age six. It opens with a man known as Lurie (anglicized from Djurić) sharing events from his boyhood with an unidentified listener. The novel takes place in the mid-to-late-nineteenth century and is told in alternating narratives. Inland, her highly anticipated second novel, does not disappoint. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, a New York Times bestseller, and awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction. Téa Obreht’s first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, was published in 2011 to great acclaim.
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