Title:
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Format:
Book
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
Description:
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
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.
Availability:
3 (of 4)
Current Holds:
0
Subjects:
African American children -- Fiction.
African American teenage girls -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
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ISBN:
9781608195220
1608195228
1608196267
9781608196265
Call Number:
FICTION WARD,J 2011