When Bronx paramedic Rafi Peralta gets the call that his estranged father has vanished from a fifth-floor apartment in Inwood-door chained from within-he finds only obsession left behind: nine years of maps, moon-logged photographs of the rock shelters in Inwood Hill Park, and a tape recording of something breathing inside thirty feet of solid stone.

With a park ranger, an urban explorer, and a Lenape archaeologist, Rafi follows his father's trail through a seam in the rock that opens only for the grieving-into the Last World, the first draft of Manhattan, where mastodon herds still cross the Hudson, where the Keeper of the Game watches from the tree line, and where a voice wearing his dead mother's gait is leading his father north.

But something else walks the Last World. The old stories called it the naked bear-the great Yakwawiak-patient as bookkeeping, and it has been waiting a very long time for company.

A sweeping novel of grief, fathers and sons, and the country beneath the city, The Bone Country blends supernatural adventure with the living history of Lenapehoking-for readers of Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and The Ritual.