The Highway of Spirit and Bone

Complex family dynamics and a long road trip lie at the center of  The Highway of Spirit and Bone , the debut novel from poet and former professor Steven Ostrowski. The journey begins when husband and father David Stepenski reluctantly agrees to drive his mother, Lilly, from her longtime home on Staten Island to Flagstaff, Arizona. Though uneasy over a new neighbor's interest in his wife, he leaves his family behind. His sister Jeanette joins them, though she and David cannot reconcile thei