Physical Description:258 pages ; 22 cm regular print print
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Publisher:New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Content descriptions
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
We are in Wolf Town -- Roger Eric Daniels III -- We are born -- Demond Cook -- We are wounded -- Charles Joseph Martin -- We are watching -- Ronald Wayne Lizana -- We are learning -- Joshua Adam Dedeaux -- We are here.
Summary, etc.:
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.