Join us on Zoom for a lively discussion of "Road of Bones" by Christopher Golden. Email Ben.Drake-Willcox@tulsalibrary.org for the Zoom link. For adults.
Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1,200-mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as 60 degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least 80 Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath the road.
Felix "Teig" Teigland is a documentary producer, and when he learns about the Road of Bones, he realizes he's stumbled upon untapped potential. Accompanied by his camera operator, Teig hires a local Yakut guide to take them to Oymyakon, the coldest settlement on Earth. Teig is fascinated by the culture along the Road of Bones, and encounters strange characters on the way to the Oymyakon, but when the team arrives, they find the village mysteriously abandoned apart from a mysterious 9-year-old girl.
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