Ward, Jesmyn.

Salvage the bones : a novel Jesmyn Ward. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011. - 261 p. ; 22 cm.

This novel covers the 12 days leading up to Hurricane Katrina via the rich, mournful voice of a pregnant 14 year old living in dire poverty.


National Book Award, 2011.

9781608195220 1608195228

2010053025


African American children--Fiction.
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Motherless families--Fiction.
African American families--Mississippi--Fiction.
Rural poor--Mississippi--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.


Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction.

PS3623.A7323 / S36 2011

813/.6

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