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Jesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University.
Awards: NBA (2017) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
Series
Bois Sauvage
1. Salvage the Bones (2011)
2. Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
3. Where the Line Bleeds (2008)
1. Salvage the Bones (2011)
2. Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
3. Where the Line Bleeds (2008)
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Books containing stories by Jesmyn Ward
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Jesmyn Ward recommends
The Unsettled (2023)
Ayana Mathis
"The Unsettled crosses generations and landscapes, digs in the Southern soil and walks mean Northern city streets. Expansive and explosive, this beauty of a novel showcases Ayana Mathis's grace on the page, as writer, as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read."
Don't Cry for Me (2022)
Daniel Black
"Don't Cry for Me a perfect song: the epistolary dirge of a man singing to his son as he faces death by cancer. At turns intense and funny, tender and brutally honest, Jacob's letter to his son, Isaac, is revelatory. While the story is an unflinching account of a family and a community in the Black American Midwest coming of age in the modern now, it is also full of that which makes us all human, regardless of where we are from or who we are: full of fathers trying to understand sons, sons trying to understand fathers, parents feeling as if they have failed children, children realizing how they have passed their own traumas on to others and so on. It's a beautiful book. Read it."
Scorpionfish (2020)
Natalie Bakopoulos
"Scorpionfish dazzles, fierce and tender in turn...Savor it, and it will leave you changed."
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