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Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn. (Author).

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

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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.

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