Let us descend
Ward, Jesmyn2023
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This novel is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. This novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land - the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South.
Main title:
Let us descend / Jesmyn Ward.
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2023.©2023
Collation:
305 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
978152666672797815266667279781526666727 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
780832
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