This book takes us deep in the heart of Mississippi. A black family living in poverty and dysfunction. Add the tension of a hurricane that is heading their way gives the reader a captivating and raw story. The title is interesting and my guess is the writer is directing our attention to the rawne...
Jesmyn Ward is a force. The impressions and emotions left by her novel "Salvage the Bones" have stayed with me for years. This book is a collection of very personal stories of herself and men from her community who died young and undeservedly. Ward's language is precise--she conjures up the se...