Well I've heard the phrase "you gotta dance with the girl that brung ya" but this is ridiculous. Whoa Nellie! Let's hope they wait a few years. A couple rounds with Jose Cuervo would get me on the dance floor, but there ain't enough whiskey in the world for this:
"On the island of Madagascar, people believe that their dead ancestors have the power to bestow fortune or tragedy on the surviving family,'' Lee Martin writes in Turning Bones.
"From May to November, the winter months of Madagascar, people pull the remains of loved ones from their tombs and dance with the corpses in a ceremony known as famadihana, which literally means 'turning of bones.' ''
In Turning Bones, Martin, who teaches creative writing at Ohio State University, steps onto the dance floor with his own dead ancestors. Moving with ease between historical fiction and personal recollection, he breathes life into the generations of Martins who made their way from Kentucky to Ohio and then on to Indiana and Illinois.
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