March 2021 book
Jesmyn Ward
SALVAGE THE BONES
This novel explores the plight of a working-class African-American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follows them through the aftermath of the storm. Ward, who had lived through Katrina, wrote the novel, after being very “dissatisfied with the way Katrina had receded from public consciousness”.
The novel was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction.
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