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Men We Reaped
By Jesmyn Ward
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By Jesmyn Ward
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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller
Introspective and elegaic, this memoir from two-time National Book Award winner Ward belongs on the shelf next to Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Kiese Laymon's Heavy.
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine
The two-time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in the rural South.
“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 the crops,...
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