TY - BOOK AU - Ward,Jesmyn TI - Let us descend: a novel SN - 9781982104498 PY - 2023///. CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Enslaved women KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Racially mixed people KW - Slavery KW - United States KW - African American families KW - Life change events KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - 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 ER -