Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Brothers and sistersAfrican American teenage girlsMotherless familiesAfrican American familiesAfrican American children
3.7
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They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short of nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face building storm- and the day that will dawn after.
Themes & subjects
Brothers and sistersAfrican American teenage girlsMotherless familiesAfrican American familiesAfrican American childrenFiction
Setting
Gulf Coast (Miss.)Mississippi2005
About the author
Jesmyn Ward
1977
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