![]() ![]() Each day follows siblings Randall, Skeetah, Esch, and Junior, as well as “Daddy”, living in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The novel is broken down into twelve days, days one through eleven leading up to Hurricane Katrina, and day twelve describing the initial aftermath. ![]() In a Question and Answer session regarding the book, Jesmyn Ward says “I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.” In Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward not only succeeds in hypnotizing the reader, but she makes the reader feel like she is living through every painful and uncomfortable moment described in the book. Jesmyn Ward’s National Book award winner “Salvage the Bones” is a complex, often difficult story that simply pulls the reader into the lives of a poor Mississippi family that ultimately survives Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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