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Bookmark or Share- The Bog Wife: A Novel | Two Rivers BookstoreThe staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a “bog-wife.” Brought to life from vegetation, this woman is meant to carry on the family line.
- The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister - bookofthemonth.comYounger son Percy retreats into the wilderness in a dangerous bid to summon his own bog-wife. And as youngest daughter Nora takes desperate measures to keep her warring siblings together, fledgling patriarch Charlie uncovers a disturbing secret that casts doubt over everything the family has ever believed about itself.
- Book Review: ‘The Bog Wife,’ by Kay Chronister - The New York ...In “The Bog Wife,” a West Virginia family must reckon with secrets, betrayals and the destruction of their legacy when a supernatural covenant that protected them begins...
- Book Summary and Reviews of The Bog Wife by Kay ChronisterThe Bog Wife is a haunting, twisted, modern-day Gothic novel set in a cranberry bog in West Virginia, owned by the Haddesly family. The five siblings, now adults, have been indoctrinated by their father with the legend of their patriarchal family which has owned the bog for longer than memory.
- The Bog Wife: Chronister, Kay: 9781640096622: Amazon.com: BooksThe Bog Wife is an Appalachian gothic tale that is wildly atmospheric. It centers on the Haddesley family living on their ancestral land set in West Virginia. A supernatural bargain ties them to the land, essentially a bog, which they must tend to in exchange for the bog sustaining them.
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