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Salvage the bones, the 2011 national book award winner for fiction, is a taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written. Esche lives near the small mississippi town of bois sauvage. A hurricane is building over the gulf of mexico, threatening the coastal town of bois sauvage, mississippi, and eschs father is growing concerned. Jesmyn ward received her mfa from the university of michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at tulane university.

Winner of the 2011 national book award for fiction a hurrica. Salvage the bones by jesmyn ward book cover isbn 9781608195220. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. When the finalists for the national book award in fiction were announced last month, im embarrassed to admit that i was among those critics. Salvage the bones study guide contains a biography of jesmyn ward, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Jesmyn wards powerful second novel tells the story of a desperately poor family in the. Her family is extremely poor, and she lost her mother to the birth of her youngest brother, junior, many years ago. That closeknit familial relationship is vivid and compelling, drawn with complexities and detail. Salvage the bones is a womans comingofage story in the face of a devastating hurricane, written by jesmyn ward. Jesmyn ward, twotime national book award winner and author of sing, unburied, sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and. Jesmyn ward, twotime national book award winner and author of sing, unburied, sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days. A hurricane is building over the gulf of mexico, threatening the coastal town of. Winner of the national book award jesmyn ward, twotime national book award winner and author of sing, unburied, sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to hurricane katrina. She is the author of the novels where the lines bleeds and salvage the bones, which won the 2011 national book award.