Salvage the Bones
A Novel
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012, ©2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Series: World Book Night U.S. 2013
Contents:
The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place -- The second day : hidden eggs -- The third day : sickness in the dirt -- The fourth day : worth stealing -- The fifth day : salvage the bones -- The sixth day : a steady hand -- The seventh day : game dogs and game men -- The eighth day : make them know -- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse -- The tenth day : in the endless eye -- The eleventh day : Katrina -- The twelfth day : alive.
Subjects:
African American children -- Fiction.
African American teenage girls -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
African American teenage girls -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781608196265
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Ward | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/31/2024) |
F Ward | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F Ward | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F Ward | Ballentine Indoors | Fiction | In |
F Ward | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Fiction | In |
F Ward | Southeast | Fiction | In |
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Q & A with Jesmyn Ward by Elizabeth Hoover originally appeared on the Paris Review Daily on August 30, 2011. Reprinted by permission of the Paris Review.
Includes bibliographical references.
National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011
Includes bibliographical references.
National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011