Title :	Salvage the Bones
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Jesmyn Ward, Author
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Publication Date:	2011
ISBN (or other code):	978-1-608-19626-5
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	Family and Relationships Fiction Parenting Pregnancy, Parenting and Children Race/Anti-Racism Women of Colour
Abstract:	They heard it on the radio: A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Savage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short on nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face the building storm -- and the day that will dawn after. - Book cover

Salvage the Bones [printed text] / Jesmyn Ward, Author . - USA : Bloomsbury, 2011.
ISBN : 978-1-608-19626-5
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:

Family and Relationships Fiction Parenting Pregnancy, Parenting and Children Race/Anti-Racism Women of Colour

Abstract:

They heard it on the radio: A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Savage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short on nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face the building storm -- and the day that will dawn after. - Book cover