Salvage the bones, Jesmyn Ward
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Salvage the bones, Jesmyn Ward
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Salvage the bones
Oclc number
768041936
Responsibility statement
Jesmyn Ward
Summary
A hurricane is 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. Fourteen and pregnant, Esch can't keep down what food she gets. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real
Target audience
adult
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Genre
Subject
- African American children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- fiction
- Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Fiction
- Large print books
- Fiction
- Large print books
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
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- African American children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- fiction
- Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Fiction
- Large print books
- Fiction
- Large print books
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
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