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Salvage the bones : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781608196265
  • ISBN: 1608196267
  • Physical Description: 271 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.:
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Awards Note:
National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011.
Subject: 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.

Available copies

  • 17 of 18 copies available at Bibliomation.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Rockville Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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