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Ward, Jesmyn.
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Children, Black -- Fiction.
Teenage girls, Black -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
National Book Awards.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
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Ward, Jesmyn.
Children, Black -- Fiction.
Teenage girls, Black -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
National Book Awards.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
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Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
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Ward, Jesmyn.
Bloomsbury USA, c2011.
Call #:
FICTION WAR
Subjects
Children, Black -- Fiction.
Teenage girls, Black -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
National Book Awards.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781608196265 (pbk.)
9781608195220
1608195228
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
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.
Awards:
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2011.
Genre:
Black fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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2
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION WAR
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