Download or read book The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel (Large Print 16pt) written by Christine Higdon and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing.