Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Publication details: New York : Bloomsbury , c2011.Description: 259 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781608196265
- Children, Black -- Fiction
- Teenage girls, Black -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Families, Black -- Fiction
- Children of alcoholics -- Fiction
- Coping with hardship -- Fiction
- Rural poor -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- National Book Awards
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
- 813/.6 22
- PS3623.A7323 S36 2011
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC WARD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001060731 |
Includes reading group guide, Q&A with author.
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 while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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