esch it's commanding of her sensuality, sensitive.ek mythology spent a time for school. quote, in every one of the greek mythology tales, there is this. a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. there is never meeting in the middle. there is only a body in a ditch, and only one person walking toward it or away from it. end quote. while salvage the bones is, at its core, a story chronicling the lives of and impoverished family in the american south, it's also a story of discovering love. rejected by manny, the father of her child, abandoned by a mother dead from childbirth, and without a present father, esch has little basis for understanding love. but those constant and honest example of love and devotion is between skeetah and his pit bull, china. the book's most tender and striking scenes are between skeetah and china. they are a true partnership, even when skeetah subjects china to brutal violence in a dogfight ring, they appear asa team. both, victims of their circumstance. ski thought whispers in her ear, quote, china, mak