Strength of Bone

A gorgeous debut. JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The OrendaAt the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. Hell send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, the small rough patches on a boys foot? HIV. Iris will make him comfortable. Theyll move on.Then there will be sleeplessness, rationed energy, a censuring ...