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Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

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First published: 2011
Pages: 231

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“Salvage the Bones” is a powerful novel by Jesmyn Ward that won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction. The story is set in the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and unfolds over twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. It follows the life of Esch, a fourteen-year-old girl who is pregnant and living with her father and three brothers.

About the author

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina.