Ward, Jesmyn,
Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 305 pages ; 22 cm.
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
9781982104498
Enslaved women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 305 pages ; 22 cm.
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
9781982104498
Enslaved women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Historical fiction.