Ward, Jesmyn
Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWard, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ward 2017Ward, 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