Let Us Descend
A Novel
Thorndike, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023, ©2023.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large Print edition.
Description: 363 pages (large print) ; 24 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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print top shelf.
Subjects:
Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.
Girls, Black -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.
Girls, Black -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9798885792592
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Ward | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF Ward | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF Ward | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Large Print Fiction | Out (Due: 5/24/2024) |
LPF Ward | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Large Print Fiction | Out (Due: 5/24/2024) |
LPF Ward | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF Ward | Northeast Indoors | New, Large Print Fiction | In |