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Salvage the Bones
Contributor(s): Ward, Jesmyn (Author)

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ISBN: 1608196267     ISBN-13: 9781608196265
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American - General
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 890(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.6" W x 8.25" L (0.65 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Essence 07/01/2012 pg. 60
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 152039
Reading Level: 5.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Winner of the National Book Award

Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.

As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family--motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce--pulls itself up to face another day. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.


Contributor Bio(s): Ward, Jesmyn: - Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood awards for essays, drama, and fiction. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford, from 2008-2010, she has been named the 2010-11 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and a finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In 2017, she was awarded a McArthur Genius Grant.
 
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