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African American children Fiction African American families Mississippi Fiction African American teenage girls Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers Fiction Gulf Coast (Miss.) Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Fiction Motherless families Fiction Rural poor Mississippi Fiction Twins FictionWard, Jesmyn
Summary: A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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Summary: "Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden Books/Agate 2008