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Salvage the Bones (National Book Award Winner)
By Jesmyn Ward
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Powerful stories and haunting characters rise from a modern Yoknapatawpha County in this acclaimed novel set during Hurricane Katrina.
Winner of the National Book Award
A New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century
An Atlantic Great American Novel of the Last 100 Years
"A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her reader's expectations." -Parul Sehgal, New York Times
The National Book Award-winning novel from the author of Let Us Descend and Men We Reaped-a gritty but tender story of family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
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