Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Ward, Jesmyn, author. Title: Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Edition: First U.S. edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. ©2011 Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm. Summary: 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. Series: World Book Night U.S. 2013 Subjects: 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. Genre: Domestic fiction. Notes: Q&A with Jesmyn Ward by Elizabeth Hoover originally appeared on the Paris Review Daily on August 30, 2011. Reprinted by permission of the Paris Review. National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011 LCCN: 2020438312 ISBN: 9781608196265 1608196267 9781408854082 1408854082 Other Number: 841165185 System Availability: 4 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 4 Control Number: 1060715 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: FICTION Ward Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
