Salvage the bones: a novel

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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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Full title :Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

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Publication Date:©2011
Edition:First U.S. edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

Notes

Q & A with Jesmyn Ward by Elizabeth Hoover originally appeared on the Paris Review Daily on August 30, 2011. Reprinted by permission of the Paris Review.

The Physical Object

Description:271 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781608196265, 1608196267, 9781408854082, 1408854082, 9781608195220, 1608195228
oclc:ocn841165185
LC Classification:PS3623.A7323
Dewey Decimal:813/.6

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Adolescentes noires américaines -- Roma… African American Children African American children -- Fiction African American families African American families -- Fiction. -… African American teenage girls African American teenage girls -- Ficti… Enfants noirs américains -- Romans, nou… Familles noires américaines -- Romans, … Familles sans mère -- Romans, nouvelles… Fiction Frères et sœurs -- Romans, nouvelles, e… Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction Mexique, Côte du Golfe du (Mississ.) --… Mississippi Mississippi -- Gulf Coast Motherless families Motherless families -- Fiction Novels