Salvage the bones
Ward, Jesmyn2018
Book
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realised that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
Main title:
Salvage the bones / Jesmyn Ward.
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2018.©2011
Collation:
262 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2011."Winner of National Book Award"--Cover.
ISBN:
9781408897720 (pbk)9781408897720 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
African American families -- Mississippi -- FictionAfrican American teenage girls -- FictionAfrican American children -- FictionSiblings -- FictionMotherless families -- FictionRural poor -- Mississippi -- FictionHurricane Katrina, 2005 -- FictionGulf Coast (Miss.) -- FictionMississippi -- FictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
813594
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| City Library | Fiction | WARD | Available |
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | WARD | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | WARD | Available |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | WARD | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | WARD | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | WARD | On loan - Due: 21 Jul 2026 |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | WARD | Available |