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Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD 'Zora Neale Hurston was a knockout in her life, a wonderful writer and a fabulous person. Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston ...Show more
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Potts, his fortunes are looking up. But, unable to resist the lure of women or a fight, ...Show more
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of N ...Show more
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South. "We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; a ...Show more
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in pove ...Show more
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction
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, ...Show more
Salvage the Bones (Prize Winner National Book Award 2011) by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't mu ...Show more
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family ...Show more
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC 'A must' Margaret Atwood 'A se ...Show more
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in AmericaIn this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers ...Show more
The Fire This Time - A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America. In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of wri ...Show more
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Fiction
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single, li ...Show more
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