Salvage the Bones

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Salvage the Bones

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Jesmyn Ward
Her first win was for Salvage the Bones, the story of a pregnant teenage girl living in coastal Mississippi with her father and brothers as they await the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Also set in the Gulf Coast, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a ghost story told from the viewpoint of…
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Her first win was for Salvage the Bones, the story of a pregnant teenage girl living in coastal Mississippi with her father and brothers as they await the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Also set in the Gulf Coast, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a ghost story told from the viewpoint of…
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Jesmyn Ward
Novels and nonfiction works
Ward’s second novel, Salvage the Bones (2011), also takes place in Bois Sauvage. It centers on a pregnant teenage girl living with her father and brothers as they prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction, which came as a…
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Ward’s second novel, Salvage the Bones (2011), also takes place in Bois Sauvage. It centers on a pregnant teenage girl living with her father and brothers as they prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction, which came as a…
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