Ward speaks for her own community, a place where she still lives and remains committed to sharing untold stories. Jesmyn Ward is a critically acclaimed author. Salvage the Bones was the recipient of the National Book Award for fiction in Salvage the Bones Summary. Fifteen-year-old Esch watches as her older brother Skeetah ’s prize fighting dog, China, gives birth to a litter of puppies. It is her first litter, and the labor is difficult and gory. Esch and Skeetah’s seven-year-old brother Junior is desperate to watch, and though they try to keep him away from the spectacle, their Daddy insists that Junior is old enough to see such things. Jesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University. Her work has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space and The Oxford American/5.
Ward speaks for her own community, a place where she still lives and remains committed to sharing untold stories. Jesmyn Ward is a critically acclaimed author. Salvage the Bones was the recipient of the National Book Award for fiction in Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury, $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. PW's Top 10 Authors on Their Favorite Books of ; BookExpo Coming. Salvage the Bones is Jesmyn Ward's second novel and the recipient of the National Book Award.. Deeply in dialogue with the Southern Gothic genre, Ward's narrative functions as a gritty yet dreamy first-person account of Hurricane Katrina's impact on a black family in the American South, told through the eyes of its year-old matriarch, Esch.
Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones is one of the standout literary novels of Hurricane Katrina. Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge is another notable Katrina novel, and follows two families—one white and one black—as they confront the storm. Ward speaks for her own community, a place where she still lives and remains committed to sharing untold stories. Jesmyn Ward is a critically acclaimed author. Salvage the Bones was the recipient of the National Book Award for fiction in Salvage the Bones Summary. Ward's novel is divided into twelve chapters, each corresponding with a day either preceding, during, or following the strike of Hurricane Katrina. Esch, a year-old girl living in the fictional Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, is the novel's first-person narrator. Esch begins the novel witnessing the dog China giving birth to a litter of puppies.
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