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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the...
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