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.