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Ward, Jesmyn.Ward, 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: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARD, JESMYN WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WARD WARWard, 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: "Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden Books/Agate 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WARD, JESYMN WARWard, Jesmyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011