At the end of this book, however, Griff and her boyfriend Paul, together work a fire (a kiln) and bake her sculptures made out of bone in it. At the end of this shared event, they each come to a realization about which direction they want to take their lives. So in a sense I interpreted the “Bone Fire” as the slow-burning yet somehow cathartic event that eventually molds the characters’ lives.

I expect readers to interpret it differently. Quite an unusual title — a sly take on “bonfire.”