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Audiobooks. fiction Fiction. memoir Novels. Road fiction. Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction)Ward, Jesmyn.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014