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Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

by Ward, Jesmyn.

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Thorndike Press, 2023.

Slaves -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.

9798885792592 (large print hc.)

363 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"Let Us Descend 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, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- Provided by publisher.

Historical fiction.

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