![]() Rural family’s bitter and bloody fight for survival in the days leading up to “With her tough, tense, and taut tale of one It’s about people facing challenges, and how they band together to The Bones face down Hurricane Katrina, the story isn’t really about the In the rural South…Though the characters in Salvage ![]() “A pitch-perfect account of struggle and community Jesmyn flirts with perfection in this stunning second novel, and the reader is The Bones] accomplishes this feat, and then some…From beginning to end, It in a way that seems palpable and fresh…[Salvage Heart-wrenching emotions attached to a natural disaster, and fewer still can do Poverty and resilience, in a powerful and poetic voice.” - Sun Herald The Bones] is uncompromising and frank, showing both beauty and violence, “A searing, understated, and big-hearted novel.” - Salon With complexities and detail.” - Los Angeles Times That close-knit familial relationship is vivid and compelling, drawn Where there is little safety except that which the siblings create for each Is an intense book, with powerful, direct prose that dips into poetic metaphor…WeĪre immersed in Esch’s world, a world in which birth and death nestle close, Menace of the southern landscape.” - Dallas Morning News “Ward’s redolent prose conjures the magic and “Without a hint of pretention, in the simple lives of these poor people livingĪmong chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation Urges the reader through this moving story set in the shadow of Katrina.” - Huffington Post “The narrator’s voice sparks with beauty as it “The first great novel about Katrina.” - Boston Globe It feels fresh and urgent, but it’s an ancient,Īrchetypal tale.” - New York Times Book Review “The novel’s power comes from the dread of theĪpproaching storm and a pair of violent climaxes.” - Wall Street Journal The characters get under your skin-even the ones you don't like-and it makes what happens matter." The book builds as the hurricane does, with growing weight and import until you feel something has to give. ![]() The book is about Hurricane Katrina, but the hurricane does not appear until very close to the end. And yet, I wonder if that is not the author's intention, to get you so deep into the heat and humidity and abject poverty and sense of no options that you just give up and slog through the pages, reading the characters and hoping for a better outcome. "This book stays with you, and for awhile, I have to confess, you feel mired in it, like you will never escape. Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it."-Washington Post With Hurricane Katrina bearing down on them, the Batistes struggle to maintain their community and familial bonds amid the storm and the stark poverty surrounding them. Unfolding over 12 days, the story follows a poor family living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. ![]() Best-selling author Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for this poignant and poetic novel. ![]()
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