Men We Reaped
A Memoir
New York : Bloomsbury USA, [2013]
Format: Ebook
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends.
Subjects:
Ward, Jesmyn.
African American women authors -- Biography.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Biography.
African American men -- Mississippi.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Ward, Jesmyn.
African American women authors -- Biography.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Biography.
African American men -- Mississippi.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Target Audience: 1020L
ISBN:
9781608197576
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