Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast.
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Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
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Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina...
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Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems...
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Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in...