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Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward · 2011

Literary Fiction · ranked #197 in category

Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2011

The Batiste family in rural Mississippi — three brothers, a pregnant teenage girl — prepare for Hurricane Katrina in the week before it strikes. Ward's National Book Award-winning novel is told through Esch, the lone girl, who is pregnant and reading Medea. The hurricane, when it comes, is rendered with devastating intimacy.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2011 · 2010s
Author
Jesmyn Ward
Standing
Essential Read

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