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WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, 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 on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a "tour de force" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that...

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, 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 on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a "tour de force" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that...

A powerful novel set in a poverty-stricken and drug-riddled Mississippi featuring twins Joshua and Christophe both desperate to alleviate the family's position. An exploration of the power of family bonds and a sense of community.

Jojo und seine kleine Schwester Kayla leben bei ihren Großeltern Mam and Pop an der Golfküste von Mississippi. Leonie, ihre Mutter, kümmert sich kaum um sie. Sie nimmt Drogen und arbeitet in einer Bar. Wenn sie high ist, wird Leonie von Visionen ihres toten Bruders heimgesucht, die sie quälen, aber auch trösten. Mam ist unheilbar an Krebs erkrankt, und der stille und verlässliche Pop versucht, den Haushalt aufrecht zu erhalten und Jojo beizubr...

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A compelling and heartbreaking memoir. In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, tragic accidents and suicide. This is a powerful account of how and why these losses happened and tells the tale of a parallel American universe where people are living with the history of racism and economic struggle and the effect this has on them and their family.

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A timely and ground-breaking collection of essays and poems about race in America from some of its most unique and powerful voices

Jojo is thirteen and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black and her children's father is white. She wants to be a better mother, but can't put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use.When the children's father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi ...

The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—"a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely depicted" (The Boston Globe).Where the Line Bleeds is Jesmyn Ward's gorgeous first novel and the first of three novels set in Bois Sauvage—followed by Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburi...

This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must' Margaret Atwood'A powerfully alive novel haunted by ghosts, a road trip where people can go but they can never leave, a visceral and intimate drama that plays out like a grand epic, Sing, Unburied, Sing is staggering' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggl...

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Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-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, and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling, and when we came...

¿We saw the lightning and that was the guns, and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns, and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling, and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.¿ ¿Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life¿to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these...

In her first work of fiction since her National Book Award-winning "Salvage the Bones, " Ward brings the archetypal road novel into rural 21st-century America with a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.

*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION *A TIME MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2017 *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize *Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal *Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize *Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2017 *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this...

The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (USA TODAY).In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most orig...

The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (USA TODAY).In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Prog...

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