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African American children Fiction African American families Mississippi Fiction African American teenage girls Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Children of prisoners Fiction Grandparent and child Fiction Gulf Coast (Miss.) Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Fiction Motherless families Fiction Rural poor Mississippi FictionWard, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ward 2011Ward, 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