"Bone Worship"

Iranian-American author Elizabeth Eslami was born in Gaffney, South Carolina. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her B.A. in 2000. She went on to earn an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She applied the Page 69 Test to Bone Worship, her debut novel, and reported the following:Excerpt from page 69:People began to gather around the snake handler