- Audiobook
- 2020
- 9 hrs 23 mins
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Title
Salvage the Bones
Description
Bloomsbury presents Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, read by January LaVoy.
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'A brilliantly pacy adventure story ... Ward writes like a dream' – The Times
'Fresh and urgent' – New York Times
'There's something of Faulkner to Ward's grand diction' – Guardian
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Hurricane Katrina 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 stockpiling food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
As the novel progresses through twelve dramatic days, this unforgettable family – motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce – pulls itself up to face another day.
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'Masterful ... A palpable sense of desire and sorrow animates every page ... Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it' – Washington Post
'Beautifully written ... A powerful depiction of grinding poverty, where somehow, amid the deprivation, the flame of filial affection survives and a genuine spirit of community is able to triumph over everything the system and nature can throw at it' – Daily Mail
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Title:
Salvage the Bones
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Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
9781526635693
Publication date:
December 31, 2020
Keywords:
America Hurricane KatrinaFamily life saga dramaSet over a few daysUS South southern statesImpact of disastersLiterary book novelTough difficult relationsProtection love sacrificeClassic novel settingAlcoholism povertyPregnant educatedNatural flood weatherShort intense time periodRelationships love struggleSet in Mississippinational book award winnersing unburiedMen We Reaped
Duration
9 hrs 23 mins
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleedsand Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Timeand the author of the memoir Men We Reaped,which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.