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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