The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
Polly Horvath.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007.
- 261 p. ; 22 cm.
When their parents are killed in a train accident, cousins Meline and Jocelyn, who have little in common, are sent to live with their wealthy, eccentric, and isolated Uncle Marten on his island off the coast of British Columbia, where they are soon joined by other oddly disconnected and troubled people.