Book Review: Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward Fiction: Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award in 2011. It is a powerful story of a poor family near the Mississippi coast. Esch is fifteen, living with her father and three brothers. She has just learned she is pregnant. Her […]
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Book Review: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
Book Review: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing is a deep, complex, layered book that follows a family through Mississippi and through some terrible events. Jojo is just a boy. He lives with his grandparents, Pop and Mam, and his little sister, Kayla. His mother, Leonie, lives […]