01302cam a2200325 i 4500 1402248702 OCoLC 20240522135131.0 230531s2023 nyu 000 1 eng d 9781982104498 Me eng rda Me n-us--- Ward, Jesmyn, author. 17230 Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. 305 pages ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. 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. Enslaved women Fiction. 17231 Mothers and daughters Fiction. 6219 Racially mixed people Fiction. 15432 Slavery United States Fiction. 11876 African American families Fiction. 55 Life change events Fiction. 5930 Historical fiction. lcgft. 129 ddc BOOK 29680 29680 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-05-22 28.00 1 WARD 66171 2024-07-03 2024-06-25 2024-05-22 BOOK 1