Salvage the bones, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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Salvage the bones, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Salvage the bones
Responsibility statement
Jesmyn Ward
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups
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- Domestic fiction
- African American children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject10
- Domestic fiction
- African American children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction