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Chapter one opens with an introduction to the narrator, Ruth Anne Boatwright, although she has been called "Bone" all her life. Bone's name is important because her oldest aunt, Aunt Ruth, names her while her mother is unconscious following a car accident. She is named Ruth for her aunt and Anne for her mama. Her nickname comes after her uncle says she is no bigger than a knucklebone. In the hospital, when her grandmother gives one last name and Aunt Ruth gives another, the clerk gets mad, and Bone is labeled a bastard by the state of South Carolina. When Mama learns of this, she's quite unhappy, and spends the next few years trying to have the birth certificate changed. Every year she visits the office, and every year she is denied. (
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Critical Essay #1 Critical Essay #2 Critical Essay #3
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