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By Ward, Jesmyn2017., Scribner Call No: 305.89 Fir Edition: First Scribner paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of eighteen essays, memoir pieces, and poems addressing race in the United States and written in response to James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew" in which the author lamented that 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it felt like African Americans were celebrating too soon.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2023., Scribner Call No: HISTORICAL F WAR Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2013., Bloomsbury Call No: WAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Jesmyn Ward, an African American author, in which she describes how she grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi, revisiting the losses of young African American men in her life, and describing her community with its history of racism and economic struggle that fosters drug addiction and the dissolution of family.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2012, c2011., Bloomsbury Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: Pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival.
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By Ward, Jesmync2011., Bloomsbury Call No: 813 .6 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description
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By Ward, Jesmyn2012., Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic FIC Ward Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Ward, Jesmyn[2017]., Scribner Call No: REALISTIC F WAR Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition September 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power---and limitations---of the bonds of family.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2018., Large Print Press Call No: Realistic FIC Ward Edition: Large print edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Jojo, a young black Mississippi boy, is being raised by his grandparents, and is forced to become a man too soon because of his mother's meth addiction, his father's imprisonment, and his young sibling who needs him. When Jojo's dad is released from prison, his mother packs up the car with her children and drives towards the penitentiary; and the nightmarish journey makes Jojo question who the men are in his life, and what kind of man he wants to be.
